Background: Professional rugby is an aggressive sport. Consequently, injuries are an inevitable part of a rugby player's career. It is therefore crucial for sports medicine professionals to understand the subjective experience of injured athletes in order to optimise their care. Objectives:The purpose of this study was to take a lifeworld perspective to explore how living with injury was meaningful to professional rugby players.Methods: A purposive sample of 5 participants were recruited and data collection undertaken via semistructured interviews. Audio-recordings were transcribed verbatim and analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis methodology to develop the themes.Findings: Three master themes emerged from the analysis, each comprising of two subthemes; 1) Sense of uncertainty (1a. Fear of the unknown, 1b. Lack of control), 2) Experienced Change in Relationships (2a. Lived human relations, 2b. Coping), 3) Sense of Self (3a. Isolation and Belonging, 3b. ''Being'' an athlete). Conclusion:Participants' described the challenge to their sense of sense of self and 'being' athletes', as the isolation from the team deprived them of their sense of belonging. Participants illustrated the experienced significance of their relationships, the uncertainty over their lives and the unique strategies to cope. Emotions of anxiety, grief, anger and shock reverberate throughout their accounts.

Objectives The aim of this study was to explore the physiotherapists' lived experiences of providing pain education (PE), to people living with non‐specific low back pain (NSLBP). In previous studies, PE has been associated with positive clinical outcomes within the physiotherapeutic management of NSLBP. However, the meaning of providing PE, as experienced by physiotherapists, has not been specifically explored. Methods This study adopted a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to explore PE experiences. Six semi‐structured interviews were conducted, interviews were transcribed and analysed in line with the ‘interpretative phenomenological analysis’ framework. Results Five main thematic meaning structures emerged: Experienced significance of assessment in understanding NSLBP, PE as explaining the nature of NSLBP, Experienced challenges in providing PE, individualisation as key to PE for NSLBP and Reassurance as central to PE for people living with NSLBP. Conclusions The significance of subjective assessment, was a key component of PE, as experienced by participants. However, differences were noted between participants in addressing the sense of assessment; in seeking a physiotherapeutic understanding of the NSLBP, and in seeking to understand the situation of those who are in pain. Within the participant experience, the significance of ‘patient’ reassurance was highlighted, related to the individualisation and outcome of PE. Reassurance, as described by participants, was emotive and practically grounded and linked with physical activity promotion. Individualisation in PE was meaningfully related to language modification and developing positive therapeutic relationships. Physiotherapists described PE particularly challenging related to pain chronicity and psychosocial factors, which may have significant implications to practice.