{"id":35173,"date":"2025-07-31T06:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35173\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T06:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:25:07","slug":"ai-app-halves-wait-time-for-back-pain-physio-in-cambridgeshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35173\/","title":{"rendered":"AI app halves wait time for back pain physio in Cambridgeshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Annys Bossom from Brampton, Cambridgeshire, was among the 2,500 patients who took part in the trial. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has a twisted pelvis, hypermobility and has suffered from back pain for 25 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At first I was very disappointed to be offered an app but, once I tried it, I really enjoyed it. It was so easy,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve had lots of treatments in the past, but this offered me exercises I&#8217;d never seen before and they&#8217;ve really worked. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Having them demonstrated on the screen was so much more motivating than having them written on a piece of paper &#8211; and I could choose when I did them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sharon McMahon, a primary school teacher from Hardwick, Cambridgeshire, was unable to work for two weeks when she experienced severe back pain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She had been waiting for 17 weeks for treatment when the app became available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I started my treatment the same day, and was able to get appointments and complete exercises whenever I liked. I was back to normal after a couple of weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Annys Bossom from Brampton, Cambridgeshire, was among the 2,500 patients who took part in the trial. She has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-35173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}