CONNECT by ATI 4+

The concept is great, but the execution is terrible. It is impossible to complete the exercises. Having to be videoed (to help ensure proper form?) in order to complete the exercises is a total bust. From having to constantly reposition the phone so that it may properly video the exercises throughout a set, and from exercise to exercise takes time, breaks concentration, and completely ruins the experience of doing PT. Additionally, if any part of the target body parts move outside of the defined range/frame during a rep, the clock stops until such time the body goes back in range which has the effect of taking three times as much time to complete one set. Also, there are glitches. Such as the inability to go from watching a demonstration video back to actually doing the exercise. If for some reason you want to try to move forward because you’re just trying to get through this horrific experience you have two choices to log why you’re moving forward. 1 You don’t have enough time or 2. you’re in too much pain.
Of course, this has the effect of recording that one didn’t actually complete the exercises when in fact you would’ve had it done three times what was expected to even get to that page.
Now an exceptional app that this company should consider learning from is Hinge

The UI seems to have been developed with a phablet in mind; on my phone a combination of clipping, overlapping elements, and inability to scroll to move things into view makes it difficult-to-impossible to interact with the app in a basic way. Even in the office when I was getting set up with it, my PT was nonplussed with how the login screen rendered the password box behind the onscreen keyboard, which meant we needed to get creative about how to actually enter my password to get logged in for the first time.

In the cases where text isn’t unreadable because it’s been clipped off without reflowing, it’s unreadable to me because the font they chose is way too small. One would think that the designer of an app for people who are doing physical therapy would have interacted with the target user base enough to figure out what older people's eyes are like.

And then, to top it all off, the app isn't syncing properly, so it only shows me some default set of exercises that has nothing to do with what my PT prescribed to me.

So basically all this app accomplished was reducing the effective length of my visit by 10 or 15 minutes while we fussed with an app that doesn't actually have any medical value because it fundamentally doesn't work. I hope ATI feels like they're getting their money's worth with this, because I sure don't.

goes back to the beginning of the list when you select “back” from an exercise, rather than back to the exercise you were working on. only offers 2 options for ending - one is too painful and one is not enough time. “back” is not an option. Then once there if neither of those is true, you must quit out of the app and start over. within the exercise, it only shows a short clip of the exercise - there is no option for timer if it is a timed exercise. if it is a one sided exercise, the written instructions do not say to repeat on the other side. So should it only be done on one side? If so put which side in the written instructions. no option to use this app if you choose to not use the camera. no notification or alerts (even if alerts are all turned on) that new documents have been uploaded.