mymobility Patient App

This app does actually track movements effectively or accurately. It says I have never stood, go up stairs once a day when I live in a 2 bedroom house. And that I do 1000s of steps but only walk 3 times, after a very busy nursing shift on a surgical ward. Disappointing

This app is designed to help prepare you for surgery and go through rehab afterwards. It has a couple of neat features, like instruction videos for exercises, walking speed before and after surgery, and what’s safe to do. Only problem is that my care team didn’t use it. It’s a great reminder to do exercises - but the ones the physician had me doing beforehand, and the ones the physio had me doing afterwards, varied significantly. If the care team or patient had access to make the program match, it would be a heap better. The information in the program was useful, and in some cases very helpful, but in others wasn’t timely. For example, it would have been really helpful to know that waxing/shaving was banned for a week before surgery - with more than 24 hours notice. And afterwards, the pool and resuming driving education pieces were weeks away from my surgeon’s policies. It would be good if those had been collected and reflected in the information to me. The content is good and can see this getting to be really useful in future. But needs more buy in or ability to customize to be really useful, and not there yet.

I still have not received my Apple Watch Kerry Johnson 0439861126

Why won’t version 3.4.1 upgrade. I am now stuck without the app.

This app reminds you to do exercises that are suited to your abilities. It provides timely education and information around what you can and shouldn’t do, and keeps track of your surgery date and medical follow up.

Needs a lot of work. I would think this was a beta, but it’s been around multiple years, so that’s not likely. One problem is that you can’t review your history easily. They display the last 5 days, but no more. Of course, it’s based on the iPhone health app, so you can get the same health data that way. 5-day averages of steps are slightly off. 5 day averages of walking sessions are absurdly wrong (my average number of walking sessions is either 1 or 14. It’s not even possible to go from a 5-day average of 14 to a 5-day average of 1 in 1 day, unless they are using negative walking sessions!) The app is excessively controlling - the exercises only appear when it is time for you to do them, then disappear. This is to keep you from doing too many, apparently, as if you can’t remember what you’ve been doing day after day. Also, I was told - but I’m not sure I believe this - that it won’t track you after you have walked too much - to keep you from walking too much. Seems to me keeping an accurate record is more important than keeping you from exercising too much.

I’m preparing for my surgery in 3 days. I’ve had annoying my mobility app send me texts everyday that are impossible to complete. Considering I’m do for surgery, the last thing I need is to have something so ridiculous to deal with.

Having had 2 hip replacements one with access to this app and one without I see the good in giving patients something to reference in their pocket. But for hip replacement it seems the youngest data entered is for under 66 years old and does not take enough into account for past physical abilities. I am currently 18 days post top and about 2 weeks ahead of the schedule assigned to me.

This app is most often used by by patients having knee or hip replacements and a large number are Senior Citizens on fixed incomes. The app says it supports iOS 15 or above. My phone is on iOS 15.7.9 and it says my phone is NOT COMPATIBLE ! Worse yet Zimmer’s website says iOS 14+. I am not only a senior, but had 4 knee surgeries in the past 2 yrs and could not work. My phone works great, I can’t see buying a new phone just for this app. And the so called web app doesn’t collect any real data ( steps, heart rate, etc) where my phone and watch do. I am not going to be tied to a computer during recovery or buy a phone I can’t afford and don’t want.

I have to spend thousands on a new IPhone to support this app? Don’t think that’s going to happen. Enjoyed it while accessible. Good-bye!