PhysiApp

I love this app. The exercises that my PT specialist gives me are easy to follow and the videos of proper exercise form are incredibly helpful. I would, however, like to have the ability as a patient to change some of the individual exercise parameters because as I improve I want to add more reps or time. But that’s not really a big deal.

This app has been unusable during almost the entire 4 mos I have been working with my chiro. It worked initially and proved valuable for the videos of the exercises, but the calendar does not advance and it never “unchecks” done exercises, so there is no history. After the latest update, I deleted the app and my chiro sent me a new link, which worked flawlessly to guide me to the App Store to download the app, but then all the old data was still there; no update to the exercises, no ability to advance the calendar; all exercises still showing checked. Nothing has changed. Clearly, their ability to write and execute test scenarios or do regression testing is amateurish at best.

Having an app to coordinate exercises with a PT and being able to review videos of the exercises is an excellent way to manage a PT program and ensure progress. I wouldn’t trade it, since this is the app my PT uses and it’s so much better than email. When you use it every day, though, little things get annoying, such as: - auto play of videos every time. You only need to watch them the first time or two! There’s not even a setting that lets you turn this off! - mark as complete doesn’t let you skip an exercise. Let’s say I only do bicep curls every other day, but they are the second exercise in my program. If I’m trying to go through and mark all the others as done, it just keep putting bicep curls in front of me instead of the next exercise in the list. So I have to wait for bicep curls to load, then close it, then find the next exercise, then do that all over again repeatedly. - loading time is long. When I launch the app, it takes a few second before you can start interacting. This is not convenient if you are trying to check it between exercises - I wish there was a way to select multiple exercises and mark them as done in one batch. It’s a very slow progress to have to load each exercise. Why does it need a progress bar just to say “marked as complete” each time? - the “all exercises are complete” message should be more celebratory. Compare to an app like Fitbit for example. I spend an hour every day motivating myself to get through exercises and all the app gives me as acknowledgement is a robotic line of tiny black text. Even my 12-year-old find this funny! So great idea, use it if your PT does, it works, but know that execution could use improvement. The intention is for someone to use it regularly and often, but it’s not designed so that’s an optimal experience.