title: Therapeutic encounters with preterm infants: interaction, posture and movement.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Physiotherapy is a common intervention for preterm infants with motor disorders. There is a limited knowledge on how individual and contextual actions influence what is created and achieved in clinical encounters between physiotherapists and infants born preterm. In this theoretical paper the aim is to open a discussion for clinicians in pediatrics to take into consideration that patient interaction might have a significant impact for the outcome. Through introducing theoretical principles based on the phenomenology of the body and enactive intersubjectivity the paper provides a framework for better understanding the contribution that the interactional components in physiotherapy with preterm infants may have.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The elaboration shows how social interaction and intentional actions influence each other in therapy. Accordingly, a fundamental driving force for effective physiotherapy intervention in preterm infants may involve a dynamical process of embodied interaction with the generation of meaning between physiotherapist and infant.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our elaboration suggests that a coordinated process of embodied interaction with preterm infants can enhance motor performance during therapeutic encounters.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health and Care Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø , Tromsø , Norway .
authors.forename: Gunn Kristin
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Øberg
authors.forename: Yvette
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Blanchard
authors.forename: Aud
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Obstfelder
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002657:Child Development; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D018730:Infant Behavior; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature / Q000523:psychology*; D033182:Intention; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009043:Motor Activity; D010465:Perception; D059825:Physical Therapists / Q000523:psychology*; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D011187:Posture; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations