Identifying contrasting embodied voices of identity: a qualitative meta-synthesis of experiences of change among patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain in long-term physiotherapy.

The patients' polyphonic voices of ambiguous and contrasting expressions of embodied sensations and the therapeutic relationship in inner and external dialog seemed to facilitate the choices of change and the creation of new identities. In practice, the physiotherapists' consciousness of the patients' concurrent polyphonic voices may improve change in treatment.