Only the treating physiotherapist
will be informed of the group allocation of the participants.
The allocation list will not be available to the
researchers and the participants will not be informed
which group they are in. The participants will be informed
that there are two different rehabilitation programs but
will not be told that one program is specifically targeting
hip strengthening exercises. This is to prevent potential
bias from knowledge of treatment. The rehabilitation will
be conducted in a large busy gym where there are many
different patients with different diagnoses treated at the
same time by their individual physiotherapists with individual
exercise programs dependent on each patient’s
needs.