Originally Posted by
calistair
Maybe one physio-session a week or every fortnight would be sufficient if the patient had the right equipment at home to perform the correct exercises?
Aside from the main question at hand, I personally don't think this is very much possible. Trained athletes have personal one on one coaching to elicit the greatest adaptations from high intensity training. Inexperienced exercisers like the general population have poor coordination, muscle recruitment problems, muscular imbalances, patterning, deficits, and as above you mentioned, and all need to be consider when prescribing exercise. Rather than sending people home for exercise alone, we should look at how we can make group exercise more effective or other modalities concomitantly.
I am trying to find an area that has not been properly catered for or where an improvement could be made in regards to a specific type of injury or surgery. I know physiotherapists generally have their own slightly different preferences of what exercises to prescribe.
What the statistics showing us right now? What is the main issue at hand, are you looking at acute injuries. In that case it is likely still fractures and contusions, and post surgery recovery that should be the main area of interest
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