Patients in both cohorts will be given a leaflet containing instructions for exercises to regain motion.
In all three intervention arms, each participant meets with a CEP to receive instructions regarding the exercise program and orientation to a detailed exercise manual that includes illustrations of exercises and safety precautions for exercising.
For this purpose, questions were formulated, for instance: "Is this exercise relevant and of added value within the warm-up of volleyball players?"; "Are the instructions for this exercise clear and complete?"; "Can this exercise be performed by volleyball players?".
They were also given two CDs with instructions for mindfulness exercises they could practice at home.
An exercise diary with written and visual instructions for each exercise (including dosage) will be provided to each participant.
The patients will receive oral and written instructions for home exercises daily for six weeks with eccentric exercise (three times 30 repetitions) and isolated stretching of radial wrist extensors (three times daily for 40 seconds).
The patients received oral and written instructions for home exercises daily for six weeks with eccentric exercise (three times 30 repetitions) and isolated stretching of radial wrist extensors (three times daily for 40 seconds).
The patients are reviewed on the ward by the physiotherapy team, and given instructions for quadriceps exercises and knee range-of-movement, together with passive and active exercises of their toes if they are not fixed by wiring.
Another endless stack of pages, pink ones by Bruce Nauman based on a 1974 concept, offers grim, typewritten instructions for an exercise that consists of pressing your body against a wall.
