To reach the elaborated needs we aimed to create an accessible online solution targeting to improve the skills of physiotherapists and sports trainers in guiding their patients/clients from a distance. This skill is crucial for the current trends of physical exercise from home and professionals must be supported for their continuous improvement and training under the aspect of Vocational Education. As a first result, we developed a methodology with motivational resources hosted in an LME, provided as OER with knowledge recognition via the open badges. As a second result, the partnership created a platform with physical activities to support home physical exercises and work-life balance in cases of work-from-home or sedentary lifestyles of employees. This tool can be exploited by physiotherapists, trainers and other users interested in adopting good practices concerning their body’s better blood flow during working hours. The professionals participating in our program provided us with significant feedback on their needs to build targeted content and through their participation in piloting and promotional activities exploited the 2 developed platforms to reach novel solutions, educational and practical, to their profession.
The REBALANCE project was structured after the Covid-19 outbreak and the changes and transitions brought in our work style as we were forced to work permanently from home. This issue brought an immediate change as well to healthcare professionals, physiotherapists and sports trainers that they had to instruct their clients from their distance. With limited resources to support this change in their services but as well to support physical exercise from a distance the Rebalance project identified the following Needs: -The need to improve the instructing on practising physical exercises in environments without the real-time instruction of the physiotherapist or trainer, through the use of digital means -The need for physiotherapists and trainers to improve their services through digital solutions that permit personalised guidance to their patients/clients even if they cannot train them in real-time. -The need to introduce physiotherapists and professional trainers in a new method of instructional exercises, training, and body endurance to enhance their services through technological means -To raise awareness on excessive sitting hours and the problems caused to the body structure and health of an individual.