Exercise Library

This post explains how to use the Rehabit exercise library. It explains the search function, adding your own, requesting and contributing exercises.

Official vs Practice exercises

The exercise library is divided into two tabs: Official and Practice. The official tab contains exercises that are maintained by the Rehabit Team. We do the photo-shoots for the images and videos, add the descriptions, instructions and classifications. We’re constantly improving the official library and it’s available to all practitioners that use Rehabit.

The practice tab contains exercises that are only available to your own practice. This is where all the exercises go that are added by any practitioner in your practice. Other practices cannot see or use these exercises.

Searching through the library

The search box is used to filter both official and practice exercises. You can use the text search to find exercises by name, and you can use the classification check-boxes to narrow down your results even further. Exercises are classified by their components, the equipment involved, the joints they affect, and the primary muscle groups that they activate. You can also favourite exercises and filter on those.

Notes

When ticking multiple check-boxes within a classification area, like equipment, the search function uses “OR” to find results. For example, if you check “Resistance Band”, “Theraband” and “Suspension Straps” you’ll get all the exercises that contain any one of those. If you include another classification area, the filter will use “AND” to find results. For example, if you were to check the “Strength” component, it would now restrict your results to only those that include both classification areas. In other words:

Return all exercises that have (”Resistance Band” OR “Theraband” OR “Suspension Straps”) **AND** (”Strength”)

Adding your own exercises

Our exercise builder is available to add your own exercises to your practice library. These exercises are only available to your practice, and will show up in the practice tab.

To add an exercise, go to the exercise library and click on the add button. All you need is an exercise name and you’re good to go, but it’s better to flesh out the exercise with some visuals, and helpful instructions. If you are planning to add an extensive collection of exercises then we suggest spending some time classifying them so that the search function returns the correct results.

Notes

If you archive an exercise that is still being used in a program, it will continue to show in that program. It just won’t show > up in your practice tab anymore.

Requesting an exercise

There is a “Request an Exercise” button in the exercise library. If you can’t find a certain exercise, and you don’t want to add it yourself, you are more than welcome to use this feature. It automatically opens a ticket with the exercise request. If it’s already in the library under a different name, we’ll let you know. And if it isn’t, then we’ll keep you updated once we’ve added it to the library. We do photo-shoots every few weeks, and we try to prioritize requests. Bear in mind that our lead time on these can fluctuate according to our schedule.

Contributing exercises

We would love to include exercises from the community. You can contribute exercises from your practice exercise library into the official library through the community page. Here, you can submit exercises for contribution. Once submitted, an exercise will stay on the pending list until we accept or decline it. If accepted, it will be copied into the official library where we will maintain it. The original exercise will stay in your practice’s exercise list.

Using exercises in programs

You can use exercises in templates, patient programs, and as pain provocations in evaluations. This will be done in the program builder and evaluation builder respectively. See those tutorials for more info.

Thanks for reading!