Adherence is ‘the extent to which a person’s behaviour corresponds with agreed recommendations from a healthcare provider’.1 Adherence is multi-factorial; components related to patients, healthcare professionals and healthcare organisations are believed to affect patient’s exercise adherence2. Patients who adhere are identified to have better treatment outcomes than non-adherent patients; thus making non-adherence a burden on the economy.1,3,4 Failure to exercise regularly is recognised as the most common non-adherent behaviour among patients with chronic conditions.5 Long-term adherence with exercise is more difficult to achieve especially when immediate benefits are unlikely to be noticed, as is often the case with exercise.5,6 This qualitative study aims to investigate physiotherapists’ perceptions regarding adherence