Build a Guided Vertigo Exercise Coaching App

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   Set the clinical boundaries with professionals

   Vertigo has dangerous causes (stroke among them), and this app must never position itself as diagnosis. Build with a vestibular physical therapist or ENT: intake screening that hard-stops on red flags (new neurological symptoms, hearing loss, head injury) with go-see-a-clinician-now messaging, and framing throughout that the app guides exercises for people whose clinician has identified positional vertigo. Review your claims against FDA general wellness guidance so features stay on the unregulated side of the line, and get advice if you drift toward device territory.

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   Make the sensor guidance genuinely better than a video

   Use the phone's motion sensors (held to the chest or in a simple head strap) to confirm each position's angle, hold the timer only when the position is right, and give calm audio coaching so eyes can stay closed. The difference between roughly there and actually there is the difference between relief and another dizzy week; the sensors close that gap.

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   Guide the side-selection problem carefully

   Which ear (and which canal) determines which maneuver, and this is where home users err most. Provide clinician-input mode (my PT said right posterior canal) as the primary path, plus educational content about why guessing wrong makes maneuvers fail, always routing uncertainty back to a professional rather than an in-app quiz that plays doctor.

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   Design for the sixty-five-year-old having a bad morning

   Large type, slow pacing options, voice-first guidance, a companion mode for the spouse helping, and zero gamification. Log episodes and maneuvers so the user brings a real history to their next appointment; that export is also how clinicians come to recommend the app.

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   Monetize simply and fairly

   A one-time purchase or a modest subscription with episode tracking and multi-maneuver support; this audience distrusts subscription traps. Partnerships matter more than app-store optimization: vestibular PT clinics, ENT practices, and audiologists hand patients home-exercise instructions weekly and would rather hand them something that works.

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   Earn clinical credibility deliberately

   Collect outcomes data properly (with consent), pursue a small validation study with a university clinic, and publish honestly whatever it shows. In health apps, one modest real study outweighs a thousand testimonials, and clinician recommendation is the only distribution channel that compounds for decades.

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