Patients with ankylosing spondylitis, receiving treatment at the Sint Maartens, can use the app "Moving with spondylitis. This move app is an additional part of the treatment in the specialized hospital. It enables patients to when and where they want it to do to reduce their complaints. Proper exercises The exercises included in this move app, selected with care by physiotherapists and rheumatologists associated with the Sint Maartens. The app is realized in collaboration with Pfizer.
Before a patient is the app for the first time, talk to him / her with the physiotherapist. They consider what exercises are appropriate and how often you can repeat them. Afterwards can be practiced with the fitness app itself. In the app, the exercises are shown on the basis of films, in which a model the exercises gradually occurs. Patients can see how the exercises should be performed, whereby they are helped by a voice-over. Exactly By recording in the app (in 'my exercise programs) exercises alternation may be inserted into the practice schedule.