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Home exercise app for physiotherapy clinics

A home exercise app gives each patient their prescribed exercises on their phone, with a short video for each one and reminders at times they choose. Patients log each session and how it felt, and the physio reviews a summary before the next appointment.

An example of how the studio would build it. No live services are connected.

From the treatment room to exercises done at home.

  1. Step 01

    Plan built

    After the appointment, the physio picks exercises from your library and sets repetitions, sets and how often to do them.

  2. Step 02

    Plan received

    The patient gets a sign-in link and sees their plan in the app, with reminders at times they choose.

  3. Step 03

    Video shown

    Each exercise plays a short video your clinicians recorded, hosted privately on Vimeo.

  4. Step 04

    Progress logged

    The patient ticks off each session and rates pain or difficulty, saved to a Supabase database in a UK region.

  5. Step 05

    Physio reviews

    Before the next appointment the physio sees a summary, and any answer that suggests a problem is flagged for them to follow up.

The result

Progress the physio can see between appointments.

The app never changes a plan or gives clinical advice: only the physio adjusts exercises. A report of sharply worse pain shows the patient who to contact and is flagged to the clinic.

Before we connect it.

Where this is useful

Useful for physiotherapy, sports injury, osteopathy and rehabilitation clinics that hand out printed sheets patients lose or forget. A sensible first version uses a small library of your most common exercises in a web app, before adding native apps or a link to your clinic system.

What we need to connect

  1. 01Short videos of each exercise recorded by your clinicians, with clear names, descriptions and safety notes.
  2. 02A Vimeo plan with privacy settings that let videos play inside the app without being publicly listed.
  3. 03Who can create plans, how patients are invited and how long data is kept, agreed against your data protection obligations for health information.

What needs careful handling

Exercise logs and pain scores are health data, which carries extra legal protection, so storage is in a UK region, access is limited to the patient’s clinicians and the purpose is explained to patients. Patients sometimes report worsening pain in the app instead of calling, so the app shows who to contact and flags the report, while making clear it is not monitored around the clock. Patients can lose a phone or change number, so sign-in uses links or codes the clinic can reissue without exposing anyone’s plan.

Questions people ask.

Can this connect to our clinic management system?

Often, if the system offers an API, as many do for patients and appointments. A first version can work alongside it, with the physio creating plans in the app and a connection added once the app has proved useful.

Does it need to be in the App Store?

Not necessarily. A web app works on any phone and can be added to the home screen. Reminders are more dependable in a native iOS or Android app, which is one reason some clinics choose one later.

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