Introduction: Rehab care therapy, such as physiotherapy and hand therapy, are not just about taking an appointment, receiving treatment, and getting cured; instead,they are treatments that demand consistency and engagement to leverage their best potential.
As a therapist, you may agree with that. Right?
The whole treatment procedure is connected with the patient’s behavioral pattern to treatment. It means your recommended therapy can do a miracle if your patient follows the exercise routine you advised, where patient-adherence and patient-compliance are much-needed elements.
Unfortunately, above-mentioned positive behavioral interventions are omitted because patients often don’t follow the home exercise program ( HEP) correctly in the absence of caregivers, which eventually mitigates the effectiveness of therapy, and that is a big concern indeed!
To resolve this problem, researchers take the assistance of Digital health interventions.
Digital health interventions come in the form of web and mobile applications; they can engage patients and keep them consistent throughout the therapeutic program.
Dedicated fitness applications allow therapists to incorporate numerous behavior change techniques ( BCTs) to accomplish multiple rehabilitative objectives.
BCTs include but are not limited to goal setting, self-monitoring, and prompts/ alerts.
Now many renowned medical device manufacturer brands integrate dedicated applications into their device to increase efficacy level. Squegg is one of them who have designed a digital grip strengthener with its dedicated application. The device shares reports via application in a specific graphic format that is convenient for both patients and therapists to understand.
In this article, we’ll talk more about digital applications and their benefits. If you’re a hand therapist and want to enrich your services with digital health interventions, this blog will help you a lot.
So, keep reading.
App-based Fitness Device Makes the Rehabilitation Process Progressive & Result-oriented
As earlier, we said that application makes therapeutic procedure result-driven by increasing the compliance rate; now it is time to discuss this further.
Here we will share the actual working mechanism of the application ( Digital health interventions) for better clarity.
Presently therapists are more likely to use application-based devices instead of non-app devices in the rehabilitative program because an app makes the therapeutic process measurable, goal-oriented, engaging, trackable, cost-effective, and safe.
Mobile application is gaining popularity in physiotherapy and hand therapy because it can upsurge patient-adherence to treatment by supporting care and driving behavioral changes. Application-based devices motivate patients to continue their therapy sessions by creating a real-time feedback loop.
How does an application work?
It has been proved that effective behavior-changing techniques (BCTs) can successfully engage patients with their routine rehab care programs. These techniques are the active ingredients of rehabilitative interventions, which are now implemented through digital applications.
Application has the ability to provide various behavior change techniques ( BCTs) that motivate patients to continue the exercise during or in between consultations or when formal treatment has ceased.
The application transforms a mundane process into a digitally visible session, so patients can see and experience their progress in real-time.
When you include an application-based device in your hand therapy or physiotherapy, you will equip your patients with the following things, such as:
- Self-monitoring
- Goal-setting
- Prompts/alerts
- Feed-back loop
- Action planning
- Instructional information
- Exercise scheduling
- Rewards
Squegg; An Application-based Companion of Your Hand Therapy Program
In the previous section of the article, we have explained the significant contribution of application in the rehabilitative care field and how it makes a therapeutic procedure patient-friendly.
Now we would like to give you an example. i.e., Squegg
Squegg is an application-based device, a digital partner of hand therapists.
Squegg comes with an integrated application that makes it stand out from the crowd. You may come across many hand grippers in the online or offline market, but most of them are not application-based or digitally connected, but Squegg is. Its dedicated application makes the product patient-friendly and fun-to-use and brings about greater involvement just because of its unique gamified grip training approach.
Squegg gamifies grip strengthening too!
It comes with a bundle of exciting in-app games and engaging grip-strengthening exercises. It means your patients will have fun during their hand therapy sessions.
When you prescribe the Squegg device to your patient, you may expect no to minimum non-adherence to treatment because they are going to love it!
Application-based Squegg device make your job easy and lets your patients experience the best hand therapy with it.
- It may help to reduce inconsistent compliance rates.
- Increase the dedication of patients to continue grip-strengthening exercises
- Offers regular assessment opportunities.
- Helps patients to evaluate & train their grip strength
- Guides them with mind-captivating, stimulating isometric exercises, replacing the mundane one
- Lets patients track their grip counts routinely
- Generates a feedback loop to keep them consistent
So, introduce Squegg exercises to your hand therapy program, and share your experience and patient feedback with us! You can see therapists’ feedback and opinions on Squegg on our website testimonials and social media platforms. Keep following us for more updates.