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The exercises are okay- sometimes the sensors are not correct and can’t tell that I am standing up. One exercise had incorrect directions. But my real problem is with the “Education” portion of the program. The articles are based on anecdotal data and are designed to brainwash you into thinking that your pain is just in your head and not important enough for you to miss work. So by gaslighting you into thinking your arthritis isn’t real, you can stay at work and damage your body further. I already had one joint replacement at a young age, and because I didn’t know what was happening, my posture and range of motion deteriorated because I didn’t seek help right away. This app would have told me I was imagining things and I didn’t need to get a replacement, I just needed to read these articles and move a little each day. *My* anecdotal data says otherwise. Too bad Hinge Health is just interested in keeping you at work rather than really educating you about what is happening with your body and what each exercise can do to help. I know what happened to me and trying to rewrite history is ridiculous. Maybe they should have considered that some of us understand cognitive behavior therapy and might recognize the tricks they were trying to pull. In fact, if they had more training in it, their app might be more successful.

The exercises are helpful but the app could use some improvements: -It doesn’t have landscape mode functionality. I prefer using it on my iPad ( propped up on keyboard in landscape mode) or connecting my device to a TV. Needing to twist my neck to look at it sideways leaves me ( literally) with pain in the neck. -Because I’m far older (nearly 60) and less flexible than many users ( thanks to decades of back problems), I find the difficulty levels progressing far faster than this old body can handle. I’d like to be able to reset levels so I can progress at a pace that’s realistic for me, by redoing earlier levels, rather than a pace that works for a 20 or 30-something year old. Same was true pre-Covid when I was traveling a lot and not able to do exercises or connect to WiFi while in remote parts of the world. Sometimes it’s necessary to go back and redo a few levels or, after a long gap, even the beginning to rebuild strength. Being able to restart at Level X ( resetting everything after level X) would be useful. Having only one exercise at each level in the library is not enough. Although the new Change function is helpful, it doesn’t make much sense when I change it to a Level 1 exercise and it tells me I’ve completed a Level 12 exercise. PS-never did get sensors that worked properly even after 3 shipments where they twice sent “replacement “ sensors for the wrong program. I finally gave up on those. Not sure they’re really necessary though.

The program works fine until you reach level 40. It took me about 5 months to get there. Then all progress stops. You are stuck on level 40 with the same 10 exercises and reps. As has been mentioned, there needs to be a maintenance aspect which rotates through various exercises after level 40. The motivation of points and progressing to the next level stops even if you start back at an earlier level. Since the idea is progression from one level to the next, it isn’t ideal to go back very many steps as you will be doing fewer reps on the same exercises. Doesn’t seem that it would be very difficult to add a plateau level that rotates through different exercises every session that are appropriate for maintaining joint health.