Equicantis

What is Equicantis?

The Equicantis exercise prescription app is a software application for equine and canine physical therapists, to design and issue exercise plans for their clients. It has been created by UK software development team Titan Webtech in collaboration with UK equine physical therapist Laura Clinton. It’s aimed at both equine and canine practitioners and the app has been developed using Umbraco Cloud as a SaaS (Software as a Service) solution. 

Identify the challenge

The road to recovery for many animals can be a long and complex one, with rehabilitation programmes sometimes being a matter of months or years, rather than simply weeks. Equine and canine physical therapists face a variety of challenges when collating and implementing their treatment programmes.  Several key aspects of their roles needed to be addressed and incorporated into any new software app for the sector. In this way technology will help to transform how practitioners carry out core tasks, such as prescribing exercise, for example. Handwriting or typing out exercise plans can take up a great deal of valuable time. Explanation too can be time consuming, so to improve client exercise quality, it is beneficial to be able to watch exercise videos, to help them perfect the rehab exercises that have been prescribed for their horse or dog. Linking these aspects together into a single solution became the principle thinking behind Equicantis.

Developing the solution

Titan Webtech teamed up with physical therapist Laura Clinton to find a solution that would address these issues that would be compatible, convenient and intuitive to use. Equicantis’ founder Laura is an Equine Sports Massage and Musculoskeletal Manipulation Therapist. The application has been developed using a variety of technologies that enables it to work on all devices – phones, tablets, laptops and desktop PCs etc – and is also compatible across these devices too. The use of SaaS as a method of software delivery and licensing allows the software to be accessed online via a subscription. This means that both client and therapist are able to work across multiple platforms, whenever and wherever they need to, and the app doesn’t have to be bought and installed on each individual computer.

The Equicantis app can be used to generate a range of professional exercise plans using its library of stock images, videos and exercise descriptions, which can then be emailed to clients with an easily accessed pdf or weblink. Therapists can also tailor the plans, which are fully customisable, and add their own exercises. The therapists can also edit sets and repetitions, and add documents, notes and x-rays, as required. Aspects such as the digital exercise plan help to give an additional professional element to any equine/canine therapy business and also provides their clients peace of mind. The programme is straightforward and intuitive to navigate and is available for use via a monthly or annual subscription. It offers reassurance and stability to both therapist and owner, which will obviously of course benefit the animal itself too.

The outcome

The story of Equicantis is about how Titan Webtech worked in collaboration with specialist Laura and helped bring a great idea to life, using SaaS to its best advantage. Our approach to the development project was influenced by our experience in developing several bespoke applications over a number of years. As Umbraco partners, and certified experts, we knew Umbraco Cloud would be an ideal choice for the project as it provides an ideal framework for these styles of applications.

Laura Clinton, the founder of Equicantis: “Working with Titan Webtech has allowed me to realise a concept I’ve been thinking about for some time. I’ve been practising for over 10 years and have always worked with pen and paper. However, I was aware that times are changing and I really wanted to provide my clients with a service that kept everything simple, but was also compatible across several platforms. Clients would often lose the sheet of paper I’d left, so would forget the instructional exercises, or the exercises they carried out didn’t conform exactly to the rehab treatment programme. Having the Equicantis app on a SaaS platform has made a world of difference to my clients and the feedback has been very encouraging and complimentary.”