How to use Armcare app
How to get started
Install the app and create an account.
On the App Store, get the Arm Care App. You can’t make an account from within the app, so go to ArmCare.com
to sign up for a subscription ($12/month). then use the email and password you created at checkout to log in to the app.
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Intro Tutorial & Home Screen
When you initially open the app, you’ll be asked to fill out some basic information such as your height, weight, and position, as well as any past surgeries, the season you’re in (in-season or off-season), and where you generally become sore after throwing.
You’ll be transported to the home screen from here. There are four tabs at the bottom: Home, Exams, Report Card, and ArmCare.
The home screen will first show you a short tour video of the app, demonstrating how to use it. This was quite helpful in getting my bearings at first.
Above that, there are two further things to notice:
The app will ask players about their arm soreness, body tiredness, and sleep quality in the Daily Check-In area. This information is logged and accessible to the coach via a team dashboard. There will be more on this later.
A Results Overview Section will display an anatomical model, but no data on the athlete’s shoulder strength or range of motion will be available until the first exam is completed. By selecting ‘Start Exam,’ you will be guided through the process of gathering your preliminary data.
The Beginning 1st Test
The level of depth and personalisation in this app is something I really enjoy. You’ll fill out questions on your most recent throwing session, current arm discomfort, the sort of throwing you did that day, and whether or not you warmed up before the exam before you start your first exam.
Each of these options affects how the app works; for example, if you haven’t warmed up, it will lead you through a band activation routine to get your shoulders warm before the assessment.
Testing of Range of Motion
Baseball players are known to experience range of motion modifications as a result of the pressures of throwing. If left untreated, these alterations might limit a player’s effectiveness and put them at danger for harm. Assessing differences, such as comparing the throwing arm to the non-throwing arm, can help change the plan by revealing how a player is adjusting to both acute and chronic workloads.
This is a relatively reliable technique to acquire useable mobility data and allow the app to uncover gross asymmetries in your athletes’ shoulders for coaches that don’t have the training or time to complete shoulder rotation exams on all of their pitchers.
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Strength Test
The Arm Care App leads you through three tests after pairing the strength sensor that comes with the Assessment Kit via Bluetooth:
- Strength of internal rotation
- Strength of external rotation
- Scaption
Formal Report Card
After you’ve completed your first exam, you’ll receive a detailed overview of your results. This includes the following:
Strength, symmetry, tiredness, mobility, and other criteria are all given points (fig A).
A Pre-Velocity Screen that determines whether the athlete is “cleared” for any type of velocity training or whether there are multiple red flags that must be handled first.
Detailed explanations of how you did on each test, as well as the importance of that metric.
How do you compare to other athletes of the same caliber? (fig B).
Advance Features
1. Check-Ins on a Daily Basis
The athlete will be prompted to perform a daily check-in to track arm soreness, sleep quality, and recovery once the app has recognized key areas for improvement. On the back end, coaches need to be able to follow their whole pitching staff in the team dashboard at simultaneously to identify who is recuperating and who has self-reported pain or stiffness.
What I enjoy best is that the athlete is asked follow-up questions about the exact location and severity of their pain/soreness, as well as recommendations and follow-up testing if they have pain or soreness in unusual spots.
Pre-Throwing Prep
The app will walk the athlete through a shoulder, hip and core activation protocol. This protocol uses their Crossover Symmetry shoulder and hip bands (which I have found to be excellent quality), although you could do these movements with other bands as well in a pinch.
After talking with the Arm Care founders, they want this work to slot in alongside the normal warm-up and training that most athletes are already doing.
It isn’t substituting for a dynamic warm-up, foam rolling, etc. but rather a pre-hab layer that coaches can add to what they’re already doing.
3. Individualized Post-Throwing Arm Care
This is the moment you’ve been looking forward to. After answering a series of questions about when the athlete last pitched, their current level of recovery, and when they expect to throw hard again, the app will create a custom arm care plan for that day that takes all of these factors into account and emphasizes the weak areas identified in your most recent exam.
Depending on your responses to the questions, it may be more of a recovery or strengthening protocol.
