Baseline sociodemographic characteristics and clinical outcomes of the participants

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 Out of eighty participants, seventy-one (37 experimental and 34 control) completed the eight weeks of intervention and pre-post assessments, representing an adherence rate of 88.9%. At the end of the study, participants’ adherence to the prescribed home exercises (experimental group: Structured HBE and control group: Home stretching) was evaluated based on the average number of exercises performed per week (self-recorded in the training diary). There were no significant differences in the number of home exercise sessions performed between the experimental (2.68 ± 0.87) and control (3.00 ± 1.07) groups (