Santo Riva, DPT is the founder and driving force behind the development of Recover Reel. He's also the owner of Victory Performance And Physical Therapy, a boutique physical therapy practice in Culver City, CA and a former adjunct clinical staff at the University of Southern California’s Doctorate of Physical Therapy Program.

When it came to prescibing Home Exercise Programs to patients, he’s done it all… from drawing stick figures, to black and white printouts with lots of cross outs and modifications, to airdropping videos and hoping that the patient remembers the sets/reps (they never did), to finally relying on personal trainer software that was better than everything else... but still not ideal.

For how important HEPs are to a patient’s success, none of these options were really great solutions.  So he set out to put together the perfect solution.  One that not only focused on removing friction and increasing compliance on the patient side, but also would make it easy and intuitive for therapists to quickly and easily create, program, and adjust HEPs during treatment sessions right from their mobile devices.