MedBridge GO for Patients for Android

Earlier I left a lower star review, and wanted to update because I appreciated the response. I will up to 5 stars once the timer issue is fixed. Thank you.

When your PT recommends that you do an exercise three times a week, it usually means that you should not do it on back to back days, for risk of injury. Unfortunately this med bridge go app does exactly that, asks you to exercise on adjacent days. As far as I can tell, if you have five exercises each to be done three times per week, it doesn’t recommend them at all until there are only three days left in the week, at which time it wants you to do them all. //similarly for exercises to be done two or three times a day: it wants you to do them all back to back in the morning, rather than one set in the morning and once at in the evening or afternoon, separated by a few hours. // This sort of app could be really useful. Just having a list of exercises and rep counts is useful. But it would be really a lot more useful if it had reasonable exercise scheduling. //don’t get me started on the user interface: it requires far too much poking around on the phone. Half of the reason I’m going to a PT is because I have injured myself using my phone.

I appreciate that this exists, and the videos of the exercises, and the logging. But it’s frustratingly poorly implemented: The instructions clearly say one thing, but the timer does another. For example, I am supposed to do 10 reps with a 5-second hold each. It should count down at least 50 seconds (more if there is a transition between reps). But it counts down from 38. It has a similar discrepancy with another of my exercises. And the app does not let you configure it to fix this. And it doesn’t have audio or visual cues for each rep. And it’s buggy: it says I have a 48-day streak of doing my exercises, but I’ve only had the app for 5 days. And it says I did my exercises 5 times today, but I only did them 3 times. So this is hardly a bug-free app, plus it has a critical flaw that its countdowns don’t even match the instructions it shows for you. But it’s not totally unhelpful, so I’ll give it 3 stars.

For some exercises, the hold time is built into the exercise and that’s fine. But for others, it just pops up a window telling me that this exercise includes hold times and that I need to pause and restart the video for each repetition. This is impossible to do. I can’t pause and restart the video every several seconds while I’m also doing the exercise at the same time. The other problem is it does not allow my provider to modify the Notes. There are some exercises she wants me to do slightly differently than shown in the video/description and there is no way she can note that in the notes. So what’s the point of having notes?

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