Can an online exercise prescription tool improve adherence to home exercise programmes in children with cerebral palsy and other neurodevelopmental disabilities? A randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Determine the adherence to and effectiveness of an 8-week home exercise programme for children with disabilities delivered using Physitrack, an online exercise prescription tool, compared with traditional paper-based methods.

Design

Single-blinded, parallel-groups, randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Setting

Intervention took place in participants' homes in Western Australia.

Participants

Children aged 6 to 17 years, with neurodevelopmental disabilities including cerebral palsy (CP), receiving community therapy services.

Intervention

All participants completed an individualised home exercise programme, which was delivered to the intervention group using Physitrack and conventional paper-based methods for the control group.

Primary outcome mea

SUBMITTER: Johnson RW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7757494 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature