App Profile: MedBridge GO for Patients

AMCCpinkprincess

Rating: 4/5

I really love how this app works for the most part. I don't have to remember everything my PT gives me, I don't even have to worry about counting because all exercises are set to a timer so I can just focus on doing it right. I love that it has the videos combined with the instructions and tips. My reason for 4 stars has to do specifically with not being able to focus on the exercises I want to in my program during each session. For example, if I'm not feeling good in my shoulder and I just want to skip to the hip exercises that day, i don't have any option on my end to uncheck the shoulder exercises before starting the program. Instead, I have to skip them to get to my hip exercises, but then it marks all the exercises as complete even though I didn't do the shoulder. I wish I could just pick the ones from my program that I want to do for now and just log those. It would help me and my PT to see what I'm doing more or less of. I'd also like the option to move exercises around in the order I want to do them. Sometimes it feels better to start with certain exercises than others, but again this is not an option. Add these features and I'll definitely give it 5 stars.

Machisimo

Rating: 2/5

This has the basic building blocks for a good tracking app but they fall well short. When I go to do my exercises and call up this app on my phone, I then lay the phone down on the floor while I’m typically laying on my back doing the exercises. It’s not enough for them to simply, have a female voice, saying, begin, rest, and have a bunch of bing bong’s. If I have a list of four exercises, the program needs to call out which exercise I’m doing at the number of reps and hold times. When I move onto the next exercise, it needs to tell me. Doing that, by simply announcing the title of the exercise, and how many reps I am to do. the way it is organized right now all it does is start flying through the different exercises going to start, stop, begin, bing bong, bing bong. I don’t even know what exercise I’m doing, unless I reached out and grab the phone and take a look at it. Also, the videos that are going along side. The timer are not actually tracking their reps at the correct speed relative to the timer. Again, the building blocks are there, but they just have an executed very well on this. Try taking your own app sometimes guys do the work lay on the floor. Listen to your app and then ask yourself whether this is really cutting it. I think you’ll figure out how to make it better real quick

JoLe!

Rating: 3/5

This app SHOULD be very useful for keeping track of your home exercises when undergoing physical therapy, and in some ways it is. But it’s also got some very annoying features that you CAN’T do, or at least are so hard to figure out that it’s equivalent to not having them. For example, when doing an exercise during a session, how do you view its video without playing videos for ALL of the exercises in your program? How do you look at your routine without jumping into a session? Just not a great user interface, not intuitive and no overview of how to best use the app. I’d direct the developer to one of the better workout apps, e.g., Fitbod, for how it should all fit together. On the other hand, the app is very useful for keeping track of all the exercises in your routine and when you’ve done them. It allows your therapist to add and subtract activities when needed and to see progress. So I recommend it, but would just like to see the developer make it great.