Flexeon wins Rep. Steven Horsford’s 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Nevada’s Fourth District

When asked what inspired the creation of Flexeon, the students said, “This past summer, one of our team members’ grandma fell and broke her wrist. The doctor prescribed her physical therapy twice a week for six weeks in hopes of helping her wrist recover. However, long commutes and limited mobility contributed to her missing many of these appointments. Our team member saw that at home, she tried to perform these exercises alone, but most of the time, the exercises were done incorrectly.

“Watching her struggle, our eyes were opened. We realized that physical therapy needed to be made accessible to everyone who needed it. Through research, we learned that one in every two adults needs some sort of physical therapy. To make matters worse, most insurance plans only cover 20-60 sessions of physical therapy a year. This leaves a majority of people, especially the elderly and uninsured, on their own.

“Therefore, we searched for alternatives that these patients could use at home. To our surprise, there was a noticeable gap in the market for an app that could provide live physical therapy feedback at home.

“All three of us, wanting to apply our knowledge and technological skills from prior Congressional App Challenges and other competitions, decided to work together to address this issue. We also wanted to test out innovative libraries and models such as MoveNet and TensorFlow Lite. This contributed to us uniting on this project.

“By witnessing firsthand the serious gap in our community regarding physical therapy accessibility, we were inspired to conceptualize an app that could provide live physical therapy feedback at home, which became Flexeon.”