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Kaido Health criteria-based rehab planning

Patient management for MSK rehab.

Plan the road back. Guide your patient down it. See the whole caseload between visits — the everyday knees, shoulders and backs through to a return-to-sport decision, discharged on criteria rather than a date.

Rotator cuff repair · Week 9 Return-to-function criteria
Not progressed Adherence 6/7
Pain-free ROM · flexion 150° target 150°
Isometric strength 62% · target ≥80%
Sleep undisturbed Not yet

Range is back; strength is short of threshold and nights are still broken, so the plan holds the progression and keeps loading. The picture, in front of you — the call is yours. Kaido Health · Proposes and monitors, never clears

Return to function and return to sport — on criteria, not the calendar.

  • 01 — Your time

    Hours back, every week

    The whole caseload on one screen. No chasing, no reconstructing from memory — each review opens already knowing where every patient stands.

  • 02 — Their recovery

    Guided, not handed a sheet

    Demo videos, a plan that adapts, a line to you between visits. Pain holds the load instead of pushing through — and they feel looked after.

  • 03 — Your call

    Return on criteria, not the calendar

    Objective thresholds for return to function and sport — the defensible standard the evidence points to, with every decision staying yours.

Where a threshold comes from research, the citation travels with it.

A man looking straight into the camera in a clinic corridor, neutral expression, shoulders bare.
R. Shaw · week 6 Ankle, grade II. Waiting on single-leg balance.
A physiotherapist in scrubs looking straight into the camera, in the same corridor and at the same distance as the patient portrait.
D. Clinician · MSK physio Twelve on the caseload. Makes every call.

Open a plan and the research sits underneath it. Every citation is checked against its source and links to the PubMed record.

Plans wait for your clinician’s sign-off, and say so until they get it. Approve one and it records who did, and when.

Every plan carries its outcome measures — VAS, plus the validated instrument for that condition. Captured per patient. Something to put in front of a referrer.

Plans don't stall because
nobody knows what to do next.

A patient sitting on the edge of a treatment plinth between sets, one leg extended to the floor, looking down at her phone. Nobody else in the room.
Most of recovery is the part nobody photographs.

They stall because it’s Thursday, the list is full, and fourteen home programmes are the job that gets dropped. Most practices are one or two physiotherapists with no admin support.

So the test isn’t what a tool can do. It’s whether it survives a full diary. A library you have to open and re-issue every week is one more thing competing with your notes.

Kaido works the other way round. Plans progress themselves against the criteria you set. What reaches your desk is a proposal with its reasoning attached — approving a week takes a glance.

A physiotherapist in dark scrubs looking straight into the camera, shot in the same way as every other portrait in the series.
J. Okonkwo · MSK physio Nine years in practice. Signs off every plan she uses.
A young man in a grey sweater looking straight into the camera, shot in the same corridor and at the same distance as the other portraits.
L. Tran · week 5 Hamstring strain. Eccentric strength 88%, three weeks to go.
A woman in a shoulder sling and collar with kinesiology tape across her shoulder, sitting in a treatment room, looking at the camera with a tired, worn expression.
A. Khan · week 9 Rotator cuff. Nothing has moved in three weeks.

Kaido proposes. Kaido monitors.

Never
clears.

The clearance conversation is one a clinician has. Software should get the picture in front of them and then get out of the way.

Move the line.
Watch the decision change.

A man mid single-leg step-down in a clinic gym, weight on the working leg, arms out for balance, jaw set and eyes on the floor in front of him.
What a threshold costs the person crossing it.

One patient, eighteen weeks after an ACL reconstruction. Drag the strength threshold and the decision follows — along with the reasoning, and what that choice has cost other clinics.

≥90%
J. Morgan · ACL reconstruction Week 18

Meets criteria

Quadriceps · LSI 92% ≥90% Met
Hop symmetry 91% ≥90% Met
Change-of-direction Pass Pass Met

Cleared quadriceps LSI 92% meets your ≥90% threshold; hop symmetry 91% meets ≥90%; change-of-direction passed.

Six-month re-injury, by where the line sits

78–85%19%
85–90%11%
90–95%5%
95–100%3%

Clearing at your threshold, the network sees re-injury in 5% of patients within six months.

Kaido never moves the line. It shows you what sits either side of it.

It arrives with defaults.
It becomes yours.

Kaido ships drafts to set, not a rulebook to accept. A stricter hop symmetry for an academy caseload. An earlier range target because your surgeons refer sooner.

Every change records what it was, what it became, who changed it and why. New patients follow your version from then on.

What builds up is a working model of how your clinic decides. Readable on one page. Handed to a new clinician on day one. Carried to your next site.

Your clearance decisions become a record you can defend.

Kaido records every episode: when a patient cleared, which criteria they met, whether they re-injured, where they stood six months on. Clearance on criteria is what makes those records comparable.

Over time that’s your own evidence base. Return-to-sport rates by plan. Re-injury patterns. Where plans stall.

Who it's for

An older man in a shoulder sling sitting by a window at home, looking out at the garden.
Week 4 · at home Most of an episode of care happens nowhere near the clinic.

Built for the musculoskeletal caseload that fills an ordinary diary. The same criteria carry into sports work — and the same record is what a performance team wants later.

Single-handed practice

Patients who finish their course of care

Most home rehab goes half-done and the patient quietly stops rebooking. Guided plans between visits, with the load holding when pain flags, keep people engaged to discharge instead of gone by week three.

Practice with juniors

One standard, whoever is in the room

A new graduate works to the same thresholds as the principal, because the thresholds are written down rather than carried in someone's head. Supervision becomes reviewing decisions, not re-deciding them.

Multi-site or growing

Handover that doesn't lose the thread

When a patient sees whoever is free, the next clinician opens the same criteria, the same history, and the reason behind every change. The standard travels with the practice, not the person.

Return isn't a date. It's thresholds, met on the body.

“Ready” isn't a feeling or a number of weeks. It's a set of measurable thresholds — crossed on the body in front of you.

1 2 3
ACL reconstruction · Week 18 — mapped to the joint.
  1. 1

    Quadriceps strength · LSI

    92% target ≥ 90% · met

  2. 2

    Change-of-direction

    not yet tested

  3. 3

    Hop symmetry

    82% short of ≥ 90%

Two of three met, one short: the plan holds the return and keeps building. You see the whole picture, and the call stays yours.

How it works — the loop

Five steps, and the fifth feeds the first: the feedback loop a clinic has never had.

THE LOOP 5 → 1 1 2 3 4 5
  1. 1

    Select the injury

    Each plan carries its criteria — what to load, what to protect, what “ready” means.

  2. 2

    Add the patient's context

    Stage of healing, pain, other load, goals. Built around this patient, not a template.

  3. 3

    Build the plan

    The engine proposes a criteria-gated, load-aware progression. You approve it before it goes out.

  4. 4

    Push it to their phone

    It lands on their phone in seconds. No login friction, no paper.

  5. 5

    They work it — you see everything

    They log by voice or a tap; pain flags hold or swap load. You see who’s stalling.

A runner on an open road, seen from behind at speed — back to sport.
The road back is a person, not a printout — Kaido Health just makes sure every step is earned.

Bring Kaido Health to your clinic.

Kaido Health is real and running, built with practising physiotherapists. If these problems sound like your week, we’d like to talk.

Let's talk.

Email hello@kaidohealth.co

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