Blog: Closing the Loop Between Physio and the Gym Floor
Closing the Loop Between Physio and the Gym Floor
Release v1.0.39
Injury management in functional fitness has always lived in two disconnected worlds: the physio's notes and the coach's programme. Information passed between them through text messages, handwritten instructions, or nothing at all. The result is athletes returning to training too early, coaches programming movements a physio has restricted, and practitioners making decisions without visibility into actual training load.
v1.0.39 closes that loop.
A Practitioner-Grade View of Injury Risk
Physiotherapists working with opted-in members now have access to the platform's injury risk dashboard. This isn't a simplified patient-facing view — it's the same data-dense surface that coaches and gym owners use, surfacing training load trends, recovery signals, and movement pattern data. When a member arrives at a physio appointment, their practitioner already has the context that used to take twenty minutes of history-taking to reconstruct.
Access is consent-driven. Members explicitly opt in to sharing their data with a named practitioner, and that permission can be revoked at any time.
Assessments That Live Where the Training Lives
After a session, the physio logs their assessment directly on the member's profile. Findings, affected structures, severity — all recorded in a timestamped entry that becomes part of the member's long-term health record on the platform. No separate system, no lost paperwork, no ambiguity about what was assessed and when.
Movement Restrictions That Actually Stick
The most common failure mode in gym-based rehab is simple: the physio says "no overhead pressing for four weeks", and a week later the member's programme has push presses in it because the coach didn't know, forgot, or had no mechanism to enforce it.
With v1.0.39, physios set movement restrictions directly on the member's profile. The AI programming engine reads those restrictions in real time and excludes the flagged movements from everything it generates — daily sessions, accessory work, benchmarks — until the restriction is explicitly lifted. The coach doesn't need to remember. The system handles it.
Return-to-Training Protocols Built Into the Programme
Physios can now author full return-to-training protocols within the platform, attaching rehab drills from the movement library to each phase of recovery. Those drills don't sit in a separate rehab app or a PDF the member may or may not open — they appear directly in the member's daily programme, scheduled and scaled alongside their regular training.
Protocols are staged. Each phase has its own duration and criteria, and the platform manages progression through them. The physio defines the path; the platform delivers it consistently, every day, without the physio needing to be present.
Who This Is For
This release is most immediately valuable for gyms that have an affiliated physiotherapist — either on staff or as a referral partner — and for physio practices that work with athletic populations and want to stay connected to their clients' day-to-day training rather than seeing them only when something goes wrong.
It's also a meaningful upgrade for members. Knowing that a restriction set by their physio is automatically honoured by the system that builds their programme removes a real source of anxiety during recovery.
Summary of Changes in v1.0.39
- Injury risk dashboard accessible to physio practitioners for opted-in members
- Injury assessment logging with timestamped records on member profiles
- Movement restrictions enforced automatically by the AI programming engine
- Return-to-training protocols with attached rehab drills integrated into the member's daily programme
- Staged protocol progression managed by the platform across the recovery timeline