Assign your first programme: design your programme

After you have selected exercises and other materials for your exercise programme, it is time to design the programme. You do this using the programme editor. Below you can read how to do this. It may seem complicated, but the steps below will help you create an excellent exercise programme in no time. Still forget any content? No problem - you can always add extra content!

With Physitrack, you easily assign 2 different types of exercise programmes:

Daily programme: This involves repeating the selected exercises every day - 7 days a week.
Weekly programme: Allows you to easily assign different exercises on different days. You can also give your patient a break for one or more days by not assigning exercises on those days. A week lasts 7 days and starts on the starting day of the assigned exercise programme.

When you start designing an exercise programme, the programme editor displays the selected exercises as a daily programme by default, unless you have selected a (pre-saved) exercise programme or template that uses a weekly programme as a basis.

Note: Once a weekly programme is assigned to a patient, it cannot be converted to a daily programme!

Daily programme

Click on an exercise (1) to change the number of repetitions, sets and other parameters.

In the window that then opens, you can add additional instructions for your patient if you wish.
You can also duplicate an exercise by clicking the Copy symbol - useful when you want to assign the exercise twice, but with a different intensity.
In this window, you can also delete the exercise directly from the exercise programme you are creating by clicking the button with the red basket and minus symbol.

Click on the red "X" (2) to remove an exercise from the programme.
Click on the small pencil next to the name of the exercise programme (3) to edit the name, add a description, change the specialisation or copy the programme to the library for later use.
The Change parameters button (4) allows you to adjust the parameters of more than one exercise at a time.
To add more exercises to the exercise programme, click the + Add exercise button (5).
By clicking on the link in the centre at the bottom of the programme editor, you switch to a weekly programme (6).
Are you done? Then click the button to assign the programme (7) and proceed to the next step!

Weekly programme

Click on an exercise (1) to change the number of repetitions, sets and other parameters.

In the window that then opens, you can also add additional instructions for your patient to the exercise, and indicate whether the changes entered apply only to the day you opened the exercise, all exercises from that day or all exercises from the start of the exercise programme.

This instance only: applies the new parameters to this one exercise you opened on this one day.
All instances from this point forward: applies the new parameters to this one exercise you opened on this day, as well as to all future times when this exercise appears in the exercise programme.
All instances in this program: applies the new parameters to this one exercise you have opened, as well as to all other times (both past and future) when this exercise occurs in the exercise programme.
You can also duplicate an exercise by clicking the Copy symbol - useful when you want to assign the exercise twice, but with a different intensity.
In this window, you can also delete the exercise directly from the exercise programme you are creating by clicking the button with the red basket and minus symbol.
Note: with this button, you delete the exercise only from the day you opened it!
Within a weekly programme, you can also drag and drop exercises to other days. This way you can move exercises around or (if you duplicate the exercise first - see above) copy them.

Click on the red "X" (2) to remove an exercise from the programme.
With the red "X" (3) at the top of the column you remove all exercises for that day. You can then leave the day empty (your patient will see the message that no exercises are scheduled on that day) or add other exercises.
Click on the small pencil next to the name of the exercise programme (4) to edit the name, add a description, change the specialisation or copy the programme to the library for later use.
The Change parameters button (5, at the bottom of the page) allows you to adjust the parameters of more than one exercise at a time. Here you will also find the link to switch the exercise programme to a daily programme.

Note: A weekly exercise programme can only be switched to a daily programme as long as the programme has not yet been assigned to a patient.
To add more exercises to the exercise programme, click the + Add exercise button (6).
Use the buttons above the exercises (7) to view and edit the different weeks of the exercise programme.

After adding a week to the exercise programme, the programme editor offers you the option to copy the last week of the programme to this new week.
Are you done? Then click the button to assign the programme (8) and proceed to the next step!

This page is part of the series Physitrack in (the) practice - created especially for novice users. Click on the links below and discover the possibilities Physitrack offers you:

Assign your first programme:

Print the exercise programme
What does your patient see when logging in to PhysiApp®?
Track the progress of your patient
Make changes to your patient's exercise programme
Add your practice logo to your Physitrack account
Add your own exercises and educational material
Add colleagues to your Physitrack subscription
Share your patients and/or added content with your colleagues
Use Telehealth for optimal remote care

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