ANDROID APP USING THE MIT APP INVENTOR: PRESCRIPTION FOR KNEE INJURY PHYSICAL THERAPY

An Android APP using MIT App Inventor was created. This APP is an exercise prescription that could be given by a physical therapist to his/her patient to treat a knee injury. The Android App prescription contains video exercises, drawings, instructions, and background information on a knee injury that a patient may want to know. Android APP prescriptions have many advantages over traditional prescriptions:  they are paperless, they are multimedia oriented, and patients can easily find them in their smart phones. MIT APP Inventor is a very intuitive and all integrated application development environment that allows the creation of many different types of Android APPs through visual programming and can be learned easily by a non-programmer in about a month.  Our work shows that physical therapists who are non-programmers could easily learn MIT APP inventor and therefore provide their patients with very useful, informative, and clear physical exercise prescriptions in an Android APP. This project is supported by the National In statute of Health (NIH), Grant Number R25 GM048998-13.