Strong digital candidateRoadmap pathway
Whole body · Wave 2
Everyday function and conditioning
Goal-based programs can focus on the tasks people actually need: walking, stairs, lifting, desk tolerance, getting off the floor, and returning to work.
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.
- 01General deconditioning
- 02Walking-tolerance programs
- 03Stair-climbing capacity
- 04Sit-to-stand and floor-transfer practice
- 05Desk-worker mobility and ergonomics
- 06Return-to-work conditioning
- 07Return-to-lifting progression
- 08Chronic-pain self-management support
- 09Home exercise maintenance after discharge
- 10Flare-up and recurrence-prevention programs
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.
Optional wearable data
Validated heart-rate, activity, or other device data may add context but cannot silently become a safety clearance.
Care ownership
Who and what the pathway still needs.
The app must still screen the underlying symptom pattern and avoid treating general conditioning as clearance for an unexplained medical problem.
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.
Large functional tasks are a strong fit when the environment is visible and the user can perform them safely without hands-on guarding.
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