What is the meaning of health and wellness for women with physical disabilities?
Because so little is known about how women with disabilities define states of health and wellness, and because qualitative techniques are so well-suited to explore unknown territory, 29-31 qualitative research strategies were applied in this study, based on grounded theory methods described by Strauss and Corbin. 32 Semistructured, open-ended interviews were used to enable the grouping of the actual experiences of our participants into emerging themes.