PhysioMaster, developed by Trinus Lab, is a professional and indispensable mobile application designed for physical therapists to streamline and objectify various clinical assessments. It transforms a standard smartphone or tablet into a sophisticated diagnostic tool, replacing bulky traditional instruments like goniometers.
Key Features and Capabilities
- Posture Analysis: Provides a fast, easy, and intuitive method to find imbalances and asymmetries. It allows for the analysis of whole-body posture (posterior, anterior, and lateral views) and detailed examination of specific points of interest, such as head/neck alignment or trunk asymmetries (e.g., indicating scoliosis).
- Digital Goniometer (Range of Motion - ROM): Utilizes the smart device's sensors to accurately measure ROM, a basic physiotherapy assessment. It eliminates the need for perfect alignment, allowing for convenient measurement in any orientation.
- Angles on Images: Allows therapists to take a picture of a patient or select one from a gallery and measure ROM or other angles directly on the image, providing visual evidence for patient education.
- Functional Movement Screen (FMS) Analysis: Objectively scores FMS exercises, evaluating movements in all three body planes and visualizing the results. This helps therapists spot movement compensations that might otherwise be missed.
- Motion Analysis: Captures and analyzes movements (e.g., arm swings, weight lifting, squatting) using the device as a sensor, charting the motion in terms of angles, angular velocities, and accelerations.
- Walk Tests: Facilitates the performance of standardized tests like the 6-minute walk test and the 10-meter walk test, with options for custom durations/distances, and calculates velocities to generate a report.
Target Users and Benefits
The primary target users are Physical Therapists, Clinicians, and Researchers. The app helps users to increase efficiency, simplify everyday tasks, perform a variety of objective assessments, and build patient confidence by visually explaining diagnoses. Independent studies have shown the application to have excellent intra-rater and inter-rater reliability, along with outstanding validity when compared to a digital goniometer, positioning it as a reliable and valid alternative to traditional tools.
Deployment
PhysioMaster is a mobile-first application available on multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, macOS (for M1 chips and later), and visionOS.