Home exercise programmes are core to physiotherapy. Patients need clear instructions, videos they can follow, and a way to report adherence. Physiotherapists need to prescribe quickly from a library that matches their clinical approach, track progress, and have the data appear in the clinical record for notes, reporting and audit. Most UK PMS platforms do not include a full exercise prescription module as standard. The result is a separate subscription (Physitrack or Rehab My Patient are the most common) and another data silo. This article looks at the practical options and the trade-offs.
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Physitrack is one of the most widely used exercise prescription platforms for physiotherapists in the UK and internationally. It provides a large video library, the ability to create personalised programmes, patient apps for adherence tracking, and telehealth/video call features. UK pricing is £19.49 + VAT per practitioner per month (or £210.49 + VAT annual with 10% discount). It integrates with several PMS platforms.
Strengths: professional video quality, adherence tracking and reporting, telehealth built in, outcomes tracking in some plans. The main downside for UK clinics is that it is almost always a separate subscription on top of the PMS, creating another login, another data source, and another monthly cost that scales with headcount.
Rehab My Patient is a UK-designed exercise prescription tool, created by physiotherapists for physiotherapists. It offers a large library of exercises with videos and photos, customisable templates, telerehab, and community templates. Pricing is flexible: individual from around £11.42/mo or £123.34/yr; clinic plans from ~£14.42/mo per practitioner (with discounts for annual). It has a well-documented integration with PPS and is popular with UK private practices and Physio First members.
Strengths: UK focus and support, good value, easy to use for home programmes. Again, for most users it is a separate tool from the main PMS.
When exercise prescription lives in a separate system:
For a clinic with 3-4 clinicians this can easily add £100-200+ per month on top of the PMS subscription, with the data split across systems.
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A system that has exercise prescription built in (as part of the clinical record) means:
Off-the-shelf PMS platforms rarely offer this level of integration without the separate tool and fee. A bespoke system can have the exact library, templates, delivery method (app/print/portal) and adherence tracking your clinic uses, built into the core record from day one.
If exercise prescription is a significant part of your clinical offering and you want the data in the same system as the notes, bookings and billing (without another per-clinician fee), bespoke removes the bolt-on problem. The plan, the videos, the patient's reported adherence and any outcome scores live in the same record as the SOAP note. Reporting on adherence, DNA, revenue per clinician and case mix draws from one source. You own it, so you can add new exercises, templates or reporting fields without waiting for a vendor.
If you want to see what built-in exercise prescription looks like in a working system, ESRE's live physiotherapy demo opens without a login. Sign in as a physio and prescribe a home programme as part of the treatment, or as the patient and view it. See the physiotherapy software hub for the demo and more.
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