Remote Monitoring for Therapists and Small Clinics
Smart Balance Insoles for remote monitoring. Hardware from $349. Set up in minutes and review gait, balance and weight-bearing trends between visits. No camera required.
The Blind Spot Between Visits
A typical outpatient plan of care includes one or two visits per week. That leaves well over 95% of a patient’s waking hours completely unobserved. You ask “how has your walking been?” and get an honest but imprecise answer, because patients are not trained to notice subtle changes in their own gait, and they tend to round up on good days and down on bad ones.
This gap matters more than it used to. Reimbursement models are shifting toward value-based and remote-monitoring codes precisely because payers want objective evidence that a plan of care is working, not just a narrative note. Clinics that can show measurable, continuous functional data are better positioned for both clinical decision-making and billing documentation as Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) becomes a standard part of physical therapy practice.
Without objective, continuous data, therapists are forced to make dosing and progression decisions on partial information: a single walk down a hallway, a single sit-to-stand test, a single balance screen. Pedisteps closes that gap by turning every step a patient takes outside the clinic into structured data your team can review before the next visit.
How Pedisteps Works in Your Clinic
Pedisteps pairs a pair of instrumented insoles (Pedisol) with a companion app and a therapist dashboard. The workflow is designed to slot into an existing PT or OT practice without adding administrative burden.
1. Fit and pair. The patient wears the insoles inside their own shoes. Pairing to the Pedisteps app takes under two minutes and does not require any technical skill from the patient.
2. Passive daily capture. Plantar pressure, step count, cadence, symmetry, weight-bearing distribution and balance-relevant metrics are captured automatically during normal daily activity, no scheduled “test” required.
3. Dashboard review. You log into the therapist dashboard before each visit and see trend lines: is stance-phase symmetry improving, is weight-bearing on the involved limb increasing, are step counts and cadence trending toward the patient’s functional goals.
4. Adjust and document. Use the objective trend data to justify progression or regression of the plan of care, and to support the documentation that RTM and value-based payer models increasingly expect.
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What This Means for Your Practice
Objective progress tracking. Replace “patient reports feeling steadier” with an actual symmetry and weight-bearing trend line you can put in a chart note.
Early detection of setbacks. A gait pattern that quietly regresses between visits, often the first sign of pain compensation, fatigue, or a new fall risk, shows up in the data before the patient even mentions it.
Support for remote monitoring billing. Continuous, device-collected functional data is exactly the kind of documentation that Remote Therapeutic Monitoring is built around. Pedisteps gives you a structured, timestamped record rather than a patient-reported log.
Better caseload triage. When you manage a full caseload, the dashboard lets you see at a glance which patients are trending well and which need attention this week, instead of finding out at their next appointment.
Stronger patient engagement. Patients who can see their own gait metrics improve tend to stay more engaged with home exercise programs. Objective feedback is motivating in a way that generic encouragement is not.
Why Remote Functional Monitoring Is Gaining Ground
Remote Therapeutic Monitoring was introduced as a distinct reimbursement category because payers and providers recognized that episodic in-clinic assessment misses too much. The direction of travel in outpatient rehab is toward continuous, objective, technology-assisted monitoring that documents function between visits, not just at them.
Gait metrics in particular have earned a reputation in the research literature as a remarkably sensitive marker of overall functional status; changes in walking speed, symmetry and weight-bearing often precede a patient’s own subjective report of a problem. That is the core rationale behind Pedisteps: put a validated, continuous gait and pressure sensor between visits, and give the clinician a trend line instead of a memory.
Clinics that have adopted structured remote monitoring programs report that objective functional data changes the conversation with both patients and referring physicians, moving it from anecdote toward evidence.
Learn more: read about how remote therapeutic monitoring is changing outpatient PT, browse the Pedisol smart insoles in our store, or open the therapist dashboard to see a live demo account. Pedisteps is also available on iOS and Android for your patients.
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The Pedisteps mobile app helps patients connect their insoles, capture walks and keep setup simple between clinic visits.
The GaitIQ dashboard gives clinicians a clear view of gait, balance and weight-bearing trends to support follow-up conversations and care planning.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Pedisteps replace an in-clinic assessment?
Pedisteps is designed to complement clinical assessment with continuous data between visits. It does not replace clinician judgment or hands-on evaluation.
How does remote monitoring work?
The patient pairs the insoles with the mobile app, walks naturally at home and shares trend data through the therapist dashboard.
What does the clinic hardware cost?
Smart Balance Insoles start at $349. Contact us for clinic onboarding and kit details.
Is a camera required?
No. Pedisteps uses instrumented insoles and the companion app, with setup designed to take minutes.