PT Assist

Inspiration

Physical therapy has been a huge part of the rehabilitation of sport related injuries. With only a limited amount of meetings per month it is hard to keep on schedule with therapy and expensive if you need more sessions. For that reason we wanted to create a system that creates accountability for the patient and allows a care provider to keep tabs on the patient without being there directly.

What it does

PT Assist is the next cool tool for physical therapy care providers. It gives them the ability to manage and track the exercises their patients are completing in real time, but reduces the amount of face-to-face time they need to spend with patients. Overall this increases productivity for the care provider and reduces costs for the patients! As an added bonus, patients are held more accountable for their therapy and might even get better faster by sticking to their routines!

How we built it

We spent a solid few hours to design all functionalities we wanted and began researching how to program an Amazon Echo. We split up and decided to each tackle a certain part of the functionality of the overall program. After creating our respective functions we decided to show each other and critic our work and eventually put it all together.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into the issue of trying to do too much with not enough time. Certain elements had to be sacrificed due to time and just our unfamiliarity with certain aspects, like database integration.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Learning how to program an Amazon Echo, since none of us have ever done anything like that. Also, just navigating Amazon's sea of services was tricky, but rewarding at the end. We really were proud of our design process. We spent a significant time just planning and designing several types of programs. We are really proud of the idea that we decided to execute.

What we learned

We learned how to program an Amazon Echo and with that we learned all the API's and the language Javascript. We, also, had web app and had to learn how create that. But most importantly, we learned the significance of design and the design process.