<i>R2Play-Rehab</i>: co-designing a multidomain integrative active rehabilitation tool for concussion

Our co-design approach enabled sustained clinician engagement and provided highly contextualised insights about real practice issues. This process may be useful for engaging end-users and integrating their perspectives in designing healthcare innovations.</p> <p></p><p>Findings indicate that clinicians face challenges in concussion rehabilitation related to: (1) reproducing and progressing multidomain integration tasks (e.g., cognitive demands during exercise); (2) guiding athletes through graded return-to-play activities performed outside the clinic; and (3) engaging non-athletes and fearful or overconfident clients in complex high intensity exercises.</p><p>Multidomain tools could help address these challenges through active rehabilitation strategies that support concussion recovery by enabling integrative therapy, facilitating the return to play process, and promoting motivation and engagement in rehabilitation.</p><p>Rehabilitation technologies designed for use in active rehabilitation of concussion should have features that satisfy high-priority clinician requirements in the areas of measuring and communicating progress, creating and reproducing customised programs, scaling multidomain task demands, setting goals, and ensuring safety.</p><p>Co-design methods including guided practice reflection, facilitated group discussion, and structured decision-making techniques can help engage clinicians as active collaborators in the creative process of designing healthcare innovations.</p><p></p> <p>Findings indicate that clinicians face challenges in concussion rehabilitation related to: (1) reproducing and progressing multidomain integration tasks (e.g., cognitive demands during exercise); (2) guiding athletes through graded return-to-play activities performed outside the clinic; and (3) engaging non-athletes and fearful or overconfident clients in complex high intensity exercises.</p> <p>Multidomain tools could help address these challenges through active rehabilitation strategies that support concussion recovery by enabling integrative therapy, facilitating the return to play process, and promoting motivation and engagement in rehabilitation.</p> <p>Rehabilitation technologies designed for use in active rehabilitation of concussion should have features that satisfy high-priority clinician requirements in the areas of measuring and communicating progress, creating and reproducing customised programs, scaling multidomain task demands, setting goals, and ensuring safety.</p> <p>Co-design methods including guided practice reflection, facilitated group discussion, and structured decision-making techniques can help engage clinicians as active collaborators in the creative process of designing healthcare innovations.</p>