Home exercise programmes that never leave the clinic
A sheet of paper competes with real life. A simpler way to remind, demonstrate and adjust exercises could change outcomes without adding appointments.
For physiotherapists
The treatment plan is clear. Getting people to follow it between appointments is not.
If home exercises, follow-ups and outcomes still depend on a printout and a hopeful conversation, you have already identified a problem software might help with.
Physiotherapy lives in the gap between the clinic and someone’s living room. That is where plans unravel: forgotten exercises, unclear progress, and appointments that restart the same explanation.
You do not need to build a medical device or take on the whole NHS to explore an idea. Many useful products in this space start as a better way to support a caseload you already have.
I help practitioners look at those ideas with a clear head: what would actually get used, what is already out there, and what is worth building.
Problems physiotherapists often mention
Not knowing who is improving until they come back
Six weeks later is a long time to wait. Light-touch check-ins can flag the people who need you sooner.
Outcome measures that are fiddly to collect
The clinical value is obvious. The admin is why it does not happen consistently.
Handovers between clinic, sport and home
A patient can see more than one person. Keeping the plan coherent is still often a conversation in a corridor.
How we would look at it
A short, honest process. The aim is to decide whether the idea is worth pursuing — not to sell you a big project.
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Share the problem
Tell me what you have noticed, who it affects, and how people handle it today.
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Explore the idea
A short conversation. I will tell you honestly whether I think software is the right next step.
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Discovery Workshop
If it is worth going further, we turn the idea into a practical plan before anyone writes a lot of code.
Questions physiotherapists often ask
It depends what it does. A reminder to do an exercise is a different proposition from a diagnostic tool. One of the first jobs is to keep the idea on the right side of that line, on purpose.
Then adding another one is probably the wrong first version. We would look at the smallest thing that would actually get used — sometimes a message, a video, or a page, not a download.
It changes who buys it, who is allowed to use it, and how it would be introduced. It does not stop us exploring the idea. Those constraints are useful to know early.
Tell me about the gap between visits.
Describe the problem in clinic language. If I think I can help, I will invite you to a short conversation to explore the idea.