ABSTRACT
The most common means of measuring adherence to home exercises has been simply to ask athletes to indicate the extent to which they adhered to their home exercise prescription. Researchers have adapted theoretical models of adherence that were originally developed for other health behaviors in an attempt to provide a framework for understanding associations between predictor variables and sport injury rehabilitation adherence. Although a variety of interventions have been suggested to enhance adherence to sport injury rehabilitation, few experimental studies have examined the efficacy of such interventions, and a causal link with improved sport injury rehabilitation adherence has been established only for a single type of intervention—goal setting. The efficacy of educational interventions in enhancing adherence can be bolstered through supervision by qualified professionals and use of instructional media that help to clarify the details of rehabilitation regimens, such as audio recordings, written/illustrated materials, and video recordings.
