TouchToe: Unlock Hip & Leg Mobility

Hip and leg stiffness can significantly increase risk of dangerous falls. TouchToe is the designed for improving leg and hip mobility. The app focus on reducing stiffness, enhancing joint health

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Inspiration

During the pandemic, my body began to cry out from pain and stiffness, so I got into low-impact exercises focused on improving mobility and flexibility. I then took it a step further and trained to become a certified stretching and breathing coach. I started teaching people how to stretch, become more flexible, and experience less pain. I have successfully taught people around me to be more flexible and realized, both from research and experience, that much of the pain, like back, hip, and knee pain, is usually caused by a limited range of motion in the lower body. So, I decided to scale this experience and create the app to help more people live pain-free.

What it does

The TouchToe app is designed to enhance your hip and leg flexibility and reduce the risk of falls caused by stiffness in the lower body, which can be especially dangerous in older age. Here are four things that set us apart:

  1. Follow-Along Experience: We provide guided animations with text-to-voice descriptions. This isn't a video but a highly customizable asset that can be adjusted in length, pace, and options to suit any lifestyle and flexibility level.

  2. Safe and Inclusive: The animations are created by a medical animator and supervised by certified medical practitioners. The text-to-voice exercise descriptions are crafted by a certified stretching coach. We have tested the app with visually impaired users, and they were able to use 80% of its features, especially the exercise part.

  3. Personalized Based on Stiffness Level: The 21-day program is tailored to the flexibility level you input into the app.

  4. Science-Based Approach: The methods used in this app are proven to work, backed by research demonstrating their effectiveness in improving flexibility.

Overall, we aim to raise awareness about the importance of mobility and flexibility, especially in the lower body. Then offer accessible and efficient way to start pain-free journey for overall well-being.

How we built it

We used Flutter cross-platform technology as our main framework to create the Android and iOS app. A serverless architecture is employed in this project via Firebase.

What we learned & Challenge

Building an exercise app is not that hard. However, making an exercise app that creates a real positive impact on people's lives is not easy. I tried not to start with the technology but to focus on the problem and replicate how we would effectively fix it in the real world through the mobile app. I realized that the app is one communication channel, but behind it is a human being trying to communicate and make people's lives better.

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