Conclusion: Parents perceive that their children's adherence to home-based exercises, which are supervised by the parents, is more successful when the physiotherapist's style and the content of the exercise program are positively experienced.
Through the analysis, the paper suggests that a Foresight program should be organized, designed and practised by considering the effects of the external contexts (e.g. national, regional and/or corporate contexts) and structural and behavioral factors stemming from these different context levels along with the nature of the issue being worked on, which constitute the content of the exercise.
However, no further guidance is provided regarding the content of the exercise program (type, intensity, frequency and duration of exercises) or regarding integrating behavioural principles.
The content of the exercise training variably included warm-up sessions followed by aerobic exercises and resistance training with varying levels of intensity generally three levels depending on the patient's exercise capacity assessed using rating of perceived exertion.
In the intensive group training protocol the content of the exercise therapy, back school and operant condition are thoroughly described and the physiotherapists are trained to apply these skills in practice.
The content of the active exercise program was informed by Exercise Guidelines for Cancer Survivors of the American College of Sports Medicine [ 28] and the Australian Association for Exercise and Sport Science [ 29], now known as Exercise and Sports Science Australia.
Secondly, we conducted a comprehensive synthesis using network meta-analysis methods to compare the effectiveness of different exercise interventions for pain and function in patients with lower limb osteoarthritis and to support evidence based recommendations regarding the content of these exercise programmes.
The format and content of the gym exercise intervention is detailed in Table 1.
The content of the supervised exercise intervention was slightly different from the study of Brox et al. 21 Fewer patients used a sling for home exercises in our study; all supervision was finished within 12 weeks; and separate lessons on functional anatomy, pain management, and ergonomics were not included.
