This is an explorative thesis based on one general aim and four specific research
aims which are all examined through the same empirical material consisting of
interviews with twenty-one physiotherapists. Observation notes have also been
taken. The specific research aims are based on different epistemological
approaches, and three different analysis strategies are used on the empirical
material. The data collection methodology, the recruitment procedures, the
procedures for the interviews and observational notes, and ethical considerations
concerning the data collection will be presented first, followed by an unfolding of
the philosophic approaches and strategies of analysis used in studies I - IV.