a | be oriented at a patient’s goal(s) and his/her ability to accomplish these goal(s): training load should be patient-tailored and goal-tailored |
b | take into consideration the individual cognitive impairments |
c | be task-oriented and should resemble real life context of patients as close as possible; address both function, activity and participation levels of the ICF by offering strength training, task-oriented training and bilateral training; happen in a natural environmental context |
d | be built up in stages of increased difficulty |
e | offer variability in exercises |
f | increase intensity and frequency of meaningful task-related movements |
g | include feedback to the patient |
h | be motivating and challenging for patients (inclusion of a gaming element) |