Background <p>Digital therapy applications offer great potential to improve the therapeutic care of patients with musculoskeletal complaints and contribute to maintaining their ability to work.</p> Aim of the study <p>The study summarizes the current status of studies on the use of digital therapy applications recognized by the pension insurance in the orthopaedic field of prevention, rehabilitation, and rehabilitation aftercare and describes their effectiveness.</p> Material and methods <p>The review was designed as a&#xa0;scoping review. Quantitative outcome measures such as ability to work, health-related quality of life, or sports medicine assessments were extracted and reported. The characteristics of the studies included were compared in tabular form.</p> Results <p>Digital therapy programs were well accepted and proved to be comparably effective to traditional formats, with context-specific advantages for some outcome parameters.</p> Discussion <p>Digital therapies are an effective therapy format with flexibility in terms of location and time.</p>