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There are many complex and varied impacts of changes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic on people's attempts to rehabilitate following a serious health event, such as a cardiac event. This chapter draws on ethnographic research, which overlapped with the first wave of the pandemic, to investigate socio-cultural influences on embodied experiences of exercise and health during the cardiac patient journey. Methods involved participant observations and repeat in-depth semi-structured interviews with cardiac patients and their significant others. Data were thematically analysed, with Bourdieusian theoretical perspectives permeating the study. Bourdieu’s theory offers insights into how individuals navigate crisis events in relation to their bodily practices, and feelings about place, especially given the multiple difficulties and challenges caused by ill-health and then the pandemic.

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This page is a summary of: “You realise you tick a lot of boxes”: Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on the Rehabilitating Body Through a Bourdieusian Lens, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-14387-8_28.
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