Every physiotherapist knows the hour in the treatment room is only half of recovery. The other half happens at home, between appointments, when nobody is checking and the exercise sheet is easy to forget. Gretha Bester qualified at the University of the Free State and holds postgraduate certificates in Orthopaedic Manipulative Physiotherapy and dry needling. She also has a background as a professional sports model in bodybuilding. She has built her practice on two beliefs: movement is medicine, and knowing why an injury happened is what stops it coming back. MoveQuest was founded to carry those beliefs out of the treatment room.

MoveQuest isn’t another workout app. It turns a rehab programme into a game people want to come back to. Movement Questers pick the parts of the body they’re working on. The app then lays out an illustrated quest map that never ends, with one section per body target and exercise stops alternating with short lessons. Every exercise has a ladder of graded versions. Honest feedback (“too easy”, “just right”, “too difficult”) moves you up or down it, and you’re never penalised for saying something hurts.