Strong digital candidateRoadmap pathway
Upper body · Wave 2
Wrist, hand, and finger recovery
Exercise guidance, timers, tendon glides, dexterity practice, and symptom tracking are realistic; close-up hand tracking needs its own validated camera mode.
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 wrist sprain after appropriate screening
- 02Wrist and finger stiffness
- 03De Quervain’s tenosynovitis
- 04Clinician-confirmed mild carpal tunnel syndrome
- 05Grip weakness and repetitive-strain conditions
- 06Hand osteoarthritis exercise programs
- 07Tendon-gliding and nerve-gliding home programs
- 08Reduced dexterity and fine-motor retraining
- 09Conservative trigger-finger support
- 10Post-cast mobility after clearance
- 11Postoperative or tendon-repair 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.
Close-up camera
A separate close-up camera mode may support a hand, wrist, finger, elbow, or foot task after task-specific calibration and validation.
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.
Fracture, tendon repair, major nerve injury, complex regional pain syndrome, severe contracture, or custom-splint needs require hand-specialist 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.
A future hand mode should use close placement, calibration, and a contrasting background. Manual reporting remains primary until finger tracking is validated.
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