we should also remember the reason why many patients dont comply easily with home exercises programm....I believe the reason might be 2 about it: First of all many therapists dont explain very well the SPECIFIC goals of a home exercise programm, they just give the patients a "passive" treatment regime and they tell them to do a couple of exercises, as a nice "extra"...By doing this many patients dont give full attention and in the long run they abandon completely the home exercises...Secondly there is an trend for many colleagues to prescribe a huge "pack" of exercises which may require inquipment that the patient don have them or cant afford them..Consequently they get frustrated because of this "non-practical" exercises and abandoned also the whole programm....
My opinion is that a patient with a MECHANICAL problem which is responding well to specific forces, should be advised to duplicate this one at home, most of the times it will be only ONE exercise not a dozen of them!!!