Axén, Iben
Schriwer, Elias
Hjertstrand, Jesper
Skillgate, Eva
Palmgren, Per J.
Eklund, Andreas
Funding for this research was provided by:
Karolinska Institute
Article History
Received: 5 June 2025
Accepted: 30 September 2025
First Online: 27 October 2025
Declarations
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: No personal information was collected, and the project was not deemed in need of ethical permission (Reference number 2024-05148-01) by the Ethical Review Authority of Sweden. All procedures were in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. All participants provided written and verbal informed consent before the interviews.
: Not applicable.
: JH is a full-time medical student. ES is a full-time PhD student. Associate professor PJP is a full-time researcher/lecturer at Karolinska Institutet. Associate professor IA is a full-time researcher at Karolinska Institutet and ELIB. Professor EvS is a full-time researcher at Sophiahemmet Högskola and Karolinska Institutet. Assistant professor AE works part-time as a researcher at Karolinska Institutet (20%), at the Nordic Institute of Manual Medicine (NIMM) (20%), and as deputy clinic manager at two multi-disciplinary rehab units (60%).
: PJP, EvS, and AE are partially affiliated with the Nordic Institute of Manual Medicine (NIMM), a private university college offering education in manual medicine. This affiliation is not considered to influence the objectivity of the research. No other competing interests are declared.