Sports Medicine

Thoughtful Integration of Behavior Modification Techniques

As a therapist, trainer, or coach, you know that part of recovery means avoiding future injuries — which means actually changing the way in which they move and approach their sport. Otherwise, they’ll end up back on the sidelines, physically unable to do anything but watch in frustration.

And so, we consulted with world-renowned psychologists to discover the fundamental ways in which we could design AC Health to offer patients like your athletes a “cheat sheet” to truly change their behaviors. We want them to take the exercises you show them during their therapy sessions and embrace them as a permanent part of their athletic career and everyday lives.

That means, every part of the AC Health App includes thoughtful integration of behavior modification techniques, including:

• Personalized Athlete Goals with videos, photos, and notes proving their improvement over the course of treatment. Progress can feel so slow that it’s hard to track between appointments. Now, prove to your athlete that their hard work is paying off through visibly improved mobility, balance, and strength necessary to get back out there.
• Automatic gamification through our Badge system to incentivize athletes to complete just one more exercise in their Care Plan — especially motivating for those patients whose lives revolve around points representing accomplishment.
• Exercise reminders that fit with an athlete’s — not a therapist’s — schedule for max compliance.
• Convenient communication that lets athletes film a selfie video or take a photo to ask their trainer between appointments, “Am I doing this right?” (Finally, you can see if they are!)
• Personalized motivation from you, their trusted trainer and healthcare provider, through quick selfie-videos and check-ins to show them that you’re watching over them — and you’re proud of their progress.

Personal & Private Communications

Like your athlete’s exercises, communication should be equally personal — and accessible wherever needed, from a dorm room or a team bus or the center of a stadium.

AC Health makes it easy for sports medical professionals to communicate privately with each athlete in their care — however and wherever they find themselves in need of your help.

Our HIPAA-compliant platform offers unlimited secure video, photo, and text-based messages directly within the App between sports rehab specialists, coaches, and athletic trainers and their athletes. Now, you can keep all of your message chains in one convenient, private place while offering athletes 24/7 access to your expertise.

Any video or photos are stored within the App, not your phone, so you don’t risk flashing an athlete’s weakness to outsiders while scrolling through your photo roll.

Plus, with a single tap, you can make a habit of sending quick 30-second motivational selfie videos to remind your athletes of their assigned exercises while showing that you truly care about them and their progress.

(They know that you care, of course, but remember how motivating a simple, spontaneous “Great job!” can be? AC Health helps you do that more often.)

Not constantly in the App? No problem! Our system automatically sends email alerts to you and your athletes, informing them of a new message in AC Health without revealing any of its contents.

Easy Navigation Encourages Repeated Use

AC Health was designed by a patient, for other patients, just like your athletes. It’s the app Susannah Bailin wishes she had when she first started therapy for a frozen shoulder. That means we approach things from a patient-first mindset — and that includes your patient-athletes, too.

That’s why we made our App simple and easy to use for patients and providers alike, only including those features that will actively enhance your athletes’ experience and are directly requested by providers like you!

Thanks to our first set of users, AC Health upgrades included:

• Prebuilt custom Libraries for regularly assigned exercises for your team or athletic group
• Reorganizing and hiding exercises to modify Care Plans without distracting athletes with old instructions
• In-App Read receipts of messages to ensure that communications were delivered and actually read!
• The Customized Goals screen that encourages extremely personal goals — “I want to start next season” or “I want to pitch without pain” — that transcend traditional patient improvement metrics.

AC Health’s simple, easy-to-navigate design encourages your athletes to repeatedly use it, while offering their athletic trainers, coaches, and sports rehab therapists a behind-the-scenes look at how well their athletes are complying with their assigned exercises between sessions.

In the end, athletes need to complete their exercises, and you need to track their progress to prove better outcomes. Our App does that without twisting itself into knots to offer 24,3478 graphs only accessible through eight clicks.