How well does your practice monitor patient adherence between appointments?
Seven questions that reveal where your home exercise programme follow-up is working — and where the gaps are costing you outcomes.
7 questions · No login required
Instant result · Your practice archetype
Benchmarked report · With email
Question 1 of 70%
Question 1 of 7
How many patients per week do you prescribe a home exercise programme to?
Question 2 of 7
How do you currently monitor whether patients complete their home exercise programme between appointments?
Question 3 of 7
When a patient stops engaging with their home programme, how do you typically find out?
Question 4 of 7
What percentage of your patients do you estimate fully complete their prescribed home exercise programme?
This is your honest estimate — there's no right answer. Most practitioners overestimate slightly, which is worth knowing.
Question 5 of 7
How much time does your practice spend per week on manual patient adherence follow-up — calls, texts, reminders?
Question 6 of 7
Can you report patient adherence rates to ACC or other funders if asked?
Question 7 of 7
How often do patients re-present with the same or a related injury within 12 months of discharge?
Your practice archetype
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Adherence gap score (lower is better)
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A deeper look at where your practice sits relative to published research on physiotherapy adherence — and what the gap costs in practical terms.
Your gap analysis against published adherence research
What your archetype typically costs in re-injury risk
The three highest-leverage changes for your practice type
How RehabPath addresses your specific gaps
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What the research says — conservative benchmarks
47%
of patients show rapid adherence decline once pain reduces — dropping from 7.7 to 4.2 out of 10 by week 22, well before structural recovery is complete
Dobson et al., 2018 · Clinical Rheumatology
Wks 12–22
is when adherence declines most sharply — the point at which pain has reduced but structural recovery is incomplete
Dobson et al., 2018 · Clinical Rheumatology
Pain ≠
recovery. Pain relief typically precedes full tissue healing by several weeks
Pain neuroscience; rehabilitation science
Dobson et al. (2018) tracked knee OA patients across three adherence trajectories. The critical finding: 92% of patients entered their programme with moderate-to-high motivation. The problem wasn't starting — it was sustaining. Nearly half (47%) showed rapid decline between weeks 12 and 22, precisely when pain had reduced but tissue healing was incomplete. A further 45% declined gradually. Only 6% were low adherence from the outset. Non-adherence is a structural problem — not a patient character failure — and practices with no visibility into it are operating without a signal they need.
Your specific gap analysis
Gap area
What this means for your practice
Risk level
Highest-leverage changes for your practice type
How RehabPath addresses these gaps
Designed for the gap your practice currently can't see
RehabPath is a WhatsApp-based behavioural coaching platform that sits between your appointments and your patients' home exercise routines. Patients receive daily check-ins and adaptive coaching messages — calibrated to where they are in their recovery — without requiring a new app or any change to your clinical workflow.
For practices currently operating without adherence visibility, it adds a systematic signal for the first time. For practices spending clinical or admin time on manual follow-up, it removes that overhead. For ACC-funded practices, it produces the structured adherence data that funders are increasingly looking for.
See it working for your practice
We're currently running a small pilot with NZ physiotherapy practices. No commitment — a 20-minute conversation to see whether it's a fit.
Primary benchmark: Dobson et al. (2018), adherence trajectory analysis in knee osteoarthritis patients, Clinical Rheumatology — identifies three adherence clusters; 92.7% of patients begin with moderate-to-high adherence, 47.4% show rapid decline between weeks 12 and 22, 45.1% decline gradually, 6.3% persistently low. Supporting reference: Fernandes et al. (2023), Health Professionals' Motivational Strategies to Enhance Adherence in the Rehabilitation of People with Lower Limb Fractures: Scoping Review, Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 20, 7050. Market context: Sapere Research Group Physiotherapy Services Market Review, December 2025 (commissioned by ACC and Physiotherapy New Zealand). All figures represent published research estimates, not RehabPath outcome data.