Specialized validation requiredRoadmap pathway
Medical conditioning · Wave 3
Cardiopulmonary and post-illness conditioning
Walking, breathing, pacing, and graded endurance can be supported remotely when medical stability and monitoring requirements are clear.
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.
- 01Post-illness deconditioning
- 02Long-COVID pacing and conditioning
- 03COPD exercise support
- 04Stable cardiac rehabilitation home exercise
- 05Walking and aerobic-tolerance programs
- 06Breathing exercises
- 07Energy-conservation training
- 08Post-hospital mobility recovery
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.
Hands-free voice
Voice can deliver setup, timing, concise cues, and bounded commands while captions and touch remain complete fallbacks.
Education and pacing
The app can provide approved education, activity modification, pacing, recovery expectations, and flare-up guidance.
Functional progress
The pathway can follow a repeatable life or task measure instead of relying only on pain or exercise completion.
Optional wearable data
Validated heart-rate, activity, or other device data may add context but cannot silently become a safety clearance.
Caregiver-supported mode
The pathway may include an explicit caregiver role for setup, supervision, communication, or safe task completion.
Care ownership
Who and what the pathway still needs.
Medical clearance, symptom thresholds, medication context, and appropriate heart-rate, oxygen, or blood-pressure monitoring may be required.
Specialized validation requiredThe app may eventually help, but safety, sensor limits, cognition, fatigue, or specialized examination make autonomous use a later research program.
Camera boundary
Visible does not mean diagnosed.
A camera can observe broad activity but cannot establish cardiopulmonary stability. Wearable or medical-device inputs must be validated and fail safely.
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