Table 2.

Search terms (MEDLINE)

Concept	Search terms	Limits
What (interventions)	program* or promot* or interven* or strateg* or approach* or train* or rehab* or princip* or therap* or support* or motivat*	Nil
Works best (promote, enhance)	benefi* or improv* or positiv* or significan* or maint*	Nil
People with MJD (initially broadened search to HAs to ensure all studies that may have included participants with MJD could be screened)	cerebellar ataxia/ or exp spinocerebellar ataxias/ or spinocerebellar degenerations/ or friedreich ataxia/ or olivopontocerebellar atrophies/ or ‘spinocerebellar ataxia*’ or ‘machado joseph disease’ or ‘friedreich’s ataxia’ or ‘inherited olivopontocerebellar atrophy’ or ‘cerebello-olivary atrophy’ or ‘spinocerebellar degeneration’ or ‘genetic degenerative ataxia’ or ‘cerebellar ataxia’ or ‘hereditary ataxia’ or ‘genetic ataxia’ or ‘inherited ataxia’ or ‘dentatorubral pallidoluysian atrophy’ or ‘trinucleotide repeat dis*’ or ‘inherited neurodegenerative dis*’ or ‘degenerative ataxia’ or ‘hereditary neurodegenerative ataxia*’ or ‘autosomal dominant hereditary ataxia*’ or ‘autosomal recessive hereditary ataxia*’	Nil
Walking and moving around (functional mobility)	exp Movement/ or exp Human Activities/ or exp Locomotion/ or Physical Mobility/ or Motor Activity/ or Stair Climbing/ or walk* or mobil* or function* or move* or moving or activit* or step* or stand* or transfer*	Nil

HAs, hereditary ataxias; MJD, Machado-Joseph disease.