Design an educational mobile application for the training of corrective movements of patients with scoliosis with intelligent support. Choosing the appropriate therapist treatment.

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Abstract: Introduction: Home exercise programs are an integral part of treatments have been proposed for scoliosis, less attention has been paid to the evaluation of these exercises. The widespread use of smartphones and their increasing availability and appeal in markets across the world have created many new opportunities to provide health services via mobile phones. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a telecare application for scoliosis patients. Methods: The study was conducted in three phases. In the development process involved defining the features, contents, developing the application and system testing. In the evaluation phase, the application was provided to a group of 10 participants comprising of patients and experts for evaluating the usability of the application and user satisfaction with its features. After a brief training, participants were asked to test the application. Results: The outcome of this study is a remote-care application for scoliosis patients, which includes a total of 51 exercises divided into five categories. The Functional requirements included use case diagram and two activity diagram. The comparison of the obtained evaluation results with the evaluation results reported in other studies showed that in only 10% of the previous evaluations with UEQ, the systems had an excellent condition in terms of “perspicuity” (average score = 0.6). Conclusions: The smartphone-based Home exercise programs system as a telerehabilitation solution was developed and described in the current study. It presents a platform that connects the patients with the Physiotherapy experts. This technology offers an important opportunity to improve access to exercises for scoliosis disorder patients.