This article reports our experience developing a mobile learning tool for mobile devices (such as smartphones and tablets) that overcomes these issues. Our application permits students to visualize patients’ images (e.g., computerized tomography [CT] or magnetic resonance imaging [MRI] scanning) as vivid and fully interactive 3D objects on a handheld device. Fig. 1b depicts an actual screenshot of our
proposal running on an Apple iPad. Mobile devices are easy to use when performing surface palpation to actual living patients in the physiotherapy teaching laboratory, and are also easy to carry when moving from one patient to another. Our proposal is intended for use as an assisting tool so the lessons can focus on physical therapy techniques in a more efficient way because students no longer need to move
away from the patient to consult anatomy.