Strong digital candidateRoadmap pathway
Spine and trunk · Wave 2
Neck and upper-back recovery
Mobility, endurance, desk habits, thoracic movement, and graded return to activity can be coached with little equipment.
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.
- 01Nonspecific neck pain
- 02Postural or desk-related neck discomfort
- 03Neck mobility restrictions
- 04Upper-trapezius and shoulder-girdle discomfort
- 05Thoracic stiffness
- 06Stable whiplash recovery after medical screening
- 07Cervicogenic headache programs after clinician evaluation
- 08General neck and upper-back conditioning
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.
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.
Care ownership
Who and what the pathway still needs.
Trauma, severe or unusual headache, neurologic change, vascular symptoms, fever, or rapidly worsening symptoms require appropriate in-person assessment.
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.
The camera may support broad range and exercise position. Precise cervical motion, neurologic testing, and headache diagnosis remain outside its capability.
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