About us

Since 1993, Physiotec has been a forerunner in the development of health and fitness exercise software. Physiotec offers interactive solutions in the elaboration of exercise programs devised for the client-base of health professionals in various public and private rehabilitation sectors.

Vision

The well-being of clients represents Physiotec’s bottom line. University research reveals that the positive results of any given physical treatment or rehabilitation process are greatly enhanced by in-home daily practice of prescribed exercise programs. The clients needs to clearly understand the program, and regularly encouraged to follow the exercise program schedule. To facilitate this process, Physiotec offers personalized visual tools explaining and demonstrating the various exercises. Clients can thus visualize the prescribed movements and their sequence, as they are clearly illustrated either with drawings, photos, and video clips.

Physiotec invests in Research, and is linked to the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Medicine, Rehabilitation Dept., which offers a supervised internship designed to foster active contributions in the establishment of interactive solutions focused and adapted to the specific needs of clients suffering from musculoskeletal disorders.

The following is an excerpt from a study undertaken by the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Medicine, Rehabilitation Dept.internship, with appropriate bibliographical references.

In the field of rehabilitation, physical exercises have often been shown to be efficient in the treatment of various musculoskeletal disorders.

Loudon, Janice K, Santos, Marcio J, Franks, Leah, Liu. The Effectiveness of Active Exercise as an Intervention for Functional Ankle Instability: A Systematic Review. Sports Medicine, 2008; 38 (7), pages 553-563 (11).

Physiotherapy treatment results are more often than not in the hands of the patients. Unfortunately, patients are often put off by these prescribed exercises, and simply do not do them, which may negatively impact results. It is true that sources reveal that only 34 to 62% of patients undergoing physiotherapy correctly apply their exercise programs.

Sluijs E M, Kok G J, Van Der Zee J. Correlates of exercise compliance in physical therapy. Physical Therapy, 1993; 73 (11), pages 771-782.

Ferguson K, Bole G Family support, health beliefs, and therapeutic compliance in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Patient Counseling and Health Education 1979; 1(3), pages 101-105.

Deyo R A. Compliance with therapeutic regimens in arthritis: issues, current status, and a future agenda. Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, 1982; 12(2), pages 233-244

Client compliance rises sharply when the physiotherapist complements exercise programs instructions with take-home explanatory text and diagrams.

G. Schneiders, M. Zusman, K. E Singer. Exercise therapy compliance in acute low back pain patients. Manual Therapy, 1998; 3(3), pages 147-152.

Also, a study of the phenomenon reveals that patients that watch a video demonstration of their exercises will reproduce them more easily.

Weeks, Douglas L., Brubaker, Jennifer, Byrt, Julie, Davis, Mary, Hamann, Lori and Reagan, Joseph. Videotape instruction versus illustrations for influencing quality of performance, motivation, and confidence to perform simple and complex exercises in healthy subjects. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2002;18 (2), pages 65-73.

With state of the art technology readily available in the fields of Internet and multimedia, new tools are available in physiotherapy to enhance the efficiency of prescribed therapeutic exercises. Physiotec software is one of these new tools exploiting new technologies.

Physiotec also collaborates with selected teaching institutions around the world, providing them with the expertise of our professional team.