Intensive prehabilitation for people living with chronic spinal cord injury: a feasibility trial

Feasibility of delivering an intensive 16-week rehabilitation program in terms of recruitment rate. i.e. willingness of participants to complete the prehabilitation program. Method of Assessment: reporting the number of days needed to recruit five participants for the study. ;; Feasibility of collecting outcome assessment data. Method of assessment: count the total number of completed surveys and assessments during the trial, compared to what was assigned to be completed;; Identication of barriers and enablers to implementation of the intervention. Method of assessment: x2 focus groups (face-to-face, groups of 5) assessed by qualitative thematic analysis with participants.

The study is a feasibility trial using an uncontrolled pre-post design, which measures feasibility and performance before and after the intervention. This trial aims to examine whether intensive prehabilitation therapy can be safely and effectively delivered to people living with chronic spinal cord injury in Australia and who have undertaken minimal rehabilitation in the last two years. The feasibility trial will also test whether intensive prehabilitation improves overall health, social outcomes and functional recovery for people living with chronic spinal cord injury.