Strong digital candidateRoadmap pathway
Lower body · Wave 1
Ankle and foot recovery
Balance, calf capacity, ankle range, walking tolerance, and return-to-running milestones create a measurable home pathway.
This pathway is part of the product roadmap and is not currently available as a Cost Plus PT treatment program.
Potential pathway scope
Use cases the product may support.
These are product and research categories—not a self-diagnosis list. A released pathway would still need to confirm that the person, symptom pattern, environment, and goals fit its exact approved rules.
- 01Mild lateral ankle sprain
- 02Chronic ankle instability
- 03Ankle stiffness after clearance
- 04Achilles tendinopathy
- 05Calf weakness
- 06Plantar heel pain or plantar fasciitis
- 07Foot and ankle osteoarthritis
- 08Posterior tibial or peroneal tendon rehabilitation under clinician direction
- 09Post-fracture rehabilitation after clearance
- 10Postoperative ankle or foot rehabilitation under protocol
How the platform could help
Useful technology with bounded jobs.
Each capability must be validated for this pathway. Approval of one camera task, condition, or population does not authorize another.
Large-movement camera
A validated camera task may observe broad movements such as walking, squats, steps, transfers, range, or balance while preserving a not-observed result.
Hands-free voice
Voice can deliver setup, timing, concise cues, and bounded commands while captions and touch remain complete fallbacks.
Bounded adaptation
A versioned rules engine may choose only approved progressions, regressions, substitutions, holds, or stops inside the pathway.
Functional progress
The pathway can follow a repeatable life or task measure instead of relying only on pain or exercise completion.
Education and pacing
The app can provide approved education, activity modification, pacing, recovery expectations, and flare-up guidance.
Care ownership
Who and what the pathway still needs.
Possible fracture, inability to bear weight, major swelling, tendon rupture, infection, or neurovascular symptoms stay outside autonomous care.
Strong digital candidateExercise, education, repetition, and visible movement are central. Each condition still needs its own approved screen and protocol before release.
Camera boundary
Visible does not mean diagnosed.
Balance, heel raises, gait, and larger ankle tasks are more realistic than precise foot-joint or arch measurements from a general phone view.
Required behaviorLow-quality or unsupported input must produce retry, manual mode, or not observed—never a normal result.
Before patient release
A pathway is more than exercise content.
Every family moves through its own clinical, evidence, technical, and operational approval. A later status change should update the catalog, not bypass these gates.
- 01
A clinically authored intended population, exclusions, and safety disposition
- 02
Versioned exercises, dosage envelopes, substitutions, holds, and stop rules
- 03
Condition-specific assessment, reassessment, milestone, and graduation criteria
- 04
Camera and voice validation for the exact supported tasks and environments
- 05
Clinical, legal, privacy, regulatory, accessibility, monitoring, and rollback approval