Department of Physiotherapy. Her research interests include critical perspectives on medicine, healthcare and physiotherapy. Birgitte's doctoral research focused on the role of gender in illness narratives of chronic pain. Her present research project focuses on the first clinical encounter between patients and physiotherapists and relates to issues of knowledge production and translation, as well as how the patient is constituted in physiotherapy practice. She is a physiotherapist with 25 years of diverse clinical experiences and a specialist in (Norwegian) psychomotor physiotherapy. Alette Ottesen is a physiotherapist and specialist in (Norwegian) psychomotor physiotherapy, with her own practice and almost 40 years of experience from working as a clinician. She is an assistant in FYSIOPRIM, a research program at the University of Oslo which aims to improve research in primary healthcare and bridging the gap between research and clinical practice.Alette also works as a lecturer at OsloMet -Oslo Metropolitan University, teaching practical skill to students in professional development courses in the area of psychomotor physiotherapy.Alette's interests are related to issues concerning physiotherapy practice and questions about what physiotherapy is and could be.