How physios can see home exercise adherence and pain between visits

A home exercise program is only as good as how often it's done, and most of it happens between appointments, where you can't see it. By the next visit you hear "I did it most days" and a pain score from memory. A shared log gives you the real picture before the client walks in.

What's worth seeing between visits

• How often they did it. Sessions in the last two weeks against the number you asked for. Low adherence explains a lot of slow progress.
• Pain, exercise by exercise. A 0 to 10 rating after the sets of each exercise shows which movement is the problem, not just whether the day was bad.
• The trend, not one number. Pain rising across a week is worth a call; one high rating after a long day may not be.
• New injuries. If a client logs a new sore spot, you hear about it before the next session, not at it.

Keep the program small enough to keep

Four or five exercises, two or three sets each, done a few times a week will usually be kept up better than a long list. Bodyweight work that needs only a wall or the floor removes another excuse. You know what each client needs; the job of the app is to make that plan easy to follow and easy to check.

• Wall sitQuads
• Glute bridgeGlutes
• Bird dogLower back, Abs
• ClamshellGlutes
• Calf raiseCalves

In Liftsmith

Pick Physio under Settings › Coaching. Each client's report then leads with the pain ratings and injuries they choose to share, with the latest rating on each exercise and the trend across their last ratings. Assign one of the gentle rehab starting points (knee, lower back, shoulder, ankle, hip, neck and upper back) or any routine you've built, with how many times a week. The report shows how often they keep to it, and you get a notification when a rating of 5 or more comes in. Clients use the app free. See coaching in Liftsmith.

Liftsmith shows what your client logs. It doesn't diagnose or treat anything, and the rehab starting points are there to adjust, not a treatment plan: your assessment decides what's right for each person.

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