I'm guessing - or deducing, more likely - that my insurance carrier was noticing my amount of claims for my visits to Ortho, PT and Chiro services last year and the beginning of this one.
I got a little mailer for a "suggestion" to join Hinge Health.
What got me to join was they're supposed to provide you some kind of device for pain. At the time, I was still experiencing a bit of knee pain, so I thought - fuck it, why not?
It's an app. It has you run through some history - where your pain is, the severity, your mobility, etc. Then it builds a rotating number of exercises for you to do each day. No session is longer than 12 minutes, so how bad can it be?
You DO have to read the fine print. Should you complete 3 classes, they'll send you a full set of resistance bands, that do come in a very nice holder. Should you do 6 classes, they send you a stand / prop for your phone so you can use it upright to do your exercises. And you must do 14 classes to get this so-called pain helping device.
I'm nothing if not compulsive, so of course I do it all.
It doesn't take long to figure out you're three steps away from having you do chair yoga - like an old fogey. I was kind of like. "fuck!". And by "kind of", I mean, I said it out lout at the gym.
Let's run through a day. Mind you, I don't get the same 6-7 exercises each day. The shuffle through many.
It starts of with a daily reminder to start your session, based on a time you ask it to such a task. And it tells you how long the session will be when you log on. 10 minutes here.
At this page it starts to list each exercise. You can opt to 'skip some of them. And each come with a modification if you cannot do it the preferred way. It also tells you what equipment you'll needing for this session. This time, no resistance bands.
Each exercise has a verbal guided plan. Below the 'start', there are also instructional videos to watch should you need more guidance. The modifications are also there.
Most of these have left and right sided exercises.
This is where I feel they do these in senior living centers.
There is an incorporation of full yoga on some of these. And it was nice to kind of touch on them, as I haven't done a ton of yoga for a while.
In yoga I LOVED balancing poses. But it's been a while and they are proving difficult for me. Mind you, I'm at the gym and I keep my shoes on. I've always had better form in bare feet.
Yay. I'm done. .....except for some administrative work.
They show you the areas they targeted in the previous sessions - and then you rate each one.
This is where I take issue. Should you do this for a while - and I'm on like week 15 - there should be gradations between "too easy" and "too hard".
I get it when you're just starting out, but there should be something in between to let them know there IS progress. Also, there is a difference for how one does on the left side vs the right. Everything is not symmetrical.
Once per week, they do ask you to rate your pain in the areas you've identified. And then they ask if work or play has been affected by your pain. And they recalibrate your workout based on all of the above
For the record, I did NOT get any device for my pain. I should check that out. Either my pain is not great enough for it to be effective, or it is in the wrong place or there is a clerical error.
None of these are horribly taxing, but the pain in my knee is reduced, though that could be from the PT exercises I'm still doing too. I don't know I need to keep this up, but you know.........OCD.
If interested, go to the website hyperlinked near the top. Check your insurance or employer. I should say, this is (was) of no cost to me, as it did come from my insurance company - who I'm sure if thinking if I were in better condition, they wouldn't be paying so many claims. It's hard to argue with that.
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