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Home exercise programme

Meaning in physiotherapy, with examples

nounCore term

In physiotherapy, home exercise programme means: A set of exercises a patient is taught in clinic and then does alone at home, usually with written or illustrated instructions.

In Turkish: ev egzersiz programı, ev programı

How it is used

Almost every patient leaves with one, and notes often shorten it to HEP. You give, review and progress a home exercise programme, and the patient follows or sticks to it. American English spells it program. Many clinics now send exercises through an app or on a printed sheet with pictures.

Example sentences

  1. I'll add two new balance exercises to your home exercise programme this week.

  2. She hasn't been doing her home exercise programme, so her progress has been slow.

Common collocations

  • give a home exercise programme
  • review the home exercise programme
  • progress the home exercise programme
  • stick to a home exercise programme
  • repetitionOne complete performance of an exercise movement, for example bending and straightening the knee once.
  • setA group of repetitions of an exercise done one after another without stopping, followed by a short rest.
  • adherenceHow well a patient follows the treatment they agreed to, for example doing their exercises regularly and in the way they were shown.
  • progressionThe step-by-step increase in the difficulty or load of an exercise programme as the patient improves.

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