Physical Therapy Videos Built From Your Own Rehab Protocols

The direct answer: Turn the rehab protocol you already approve into a replayable home guide. Upload that protocol. Golpo drafts the narration, plans the scenes, and builds the explanation around the therapist’s own movement demonstration. You review the script and the frames before a patient uses it.

This guide is for physical therapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation, orthopaedic, and home-exercise program teams. The four videos below were generated in Prompt Mode from the protocol documents beside them. They show how a phase, a stair sequence, a precaution matrix, and a care roadmap become visual drafts. When the movement itself must be accurate, insert the therapist’s demonstration. Generated animation can explain purpose and order. It does not replace a clinical assessment or a required movement demonstration.

The business problem

• Paper handouts make sequencing and body position difficult to reconstruct at home.
• Generic exercise videos can conflict with procedure-specific phases, restrictions, and progression criteria.
• Protocols change, yet bookmarked videos and old portal links can remain accessible.
• A video cannot observe technique, symptoms, environment, or whether progression is appropriate.

Open each source below, read the brief, and play the video. The knee phase is the one to extend with the therapist’s movement clip, a diagram of the order, and the warning already in the protocol.

Four real document-to-video examples

Build this video entirely from the attached document. Title it: Your First Two Weeks of Knee Rehabilitation. Explain the phase-one home program, exercise order, repetitions, walking plan, symptom rules, and progression gate. Write the narration yourself from the attached document. No narration script has been supplied. Do not introduce any fact, figure, date, name, instruction, recommendation, legal conclusion, clinical interpretation, benefit, or outcome that is not in the document. Do not soften or strengthen its wording. The document is a clearly labelled fictional specimen, so describe its organizations, people, identifiers, and values as illustrative rather than real.

Use a day-by-day timeline and demonstrate only the positions pictured in the protocol. Do not invent an exercise or progression. FIGURE LOCK: every number, date, identifier, threshold, amount, dose, score, time, temperature, visit window, phone number, and code shown or spoken must be copied from the attached document. Never invent a placeholder or rounded value.

Build this video entirely from the attached document. Title it: Walker Fit and Stair Sequence. Explain walker height checks, sit-to-stand sequence, level walking, curb sequence, and stair wording. Write the narration yourself from the attached document. No narration script has been supplied. Do not introduce any fact, figure, date, name, instruction, recommendation, legal conclusion, clinical interpretation, benefit, or outcome that is not in the document. Do not soften or strengthen its wording. The document is a clearly labelled fictional specimen, so describe its organizations, people, identifiers, and values as illustrative rather than real.

Use large words for UP and DOWN and preserve the guide's exact sequencing mnemonics. Never imply unsupervised practice is appropriate. FIGURE LOCK: every number, date, identifier, threshold, amount, dose, score, time, temperature, visit window, phone number, and code shown or spoken must be copied from the attached document. Never invent a placeholder or rounded value. Render a few large key words and short labels inside the drawing in every scene, the way the Classic with Words treatment does.

Build this video entirely from the attached document. Title it: Protecting a Shoulder After Repair. Explain sling setup, allowed daily activities, prohibited movements, home setup, and the red/yellow/green contact matrix. Write the narration yourself from the attached document. No narration script has been supplied. Do not introduce any fact, figure, date, name, instruction, recommendation, legal conclusion, clinical interpretation, benefit, or outcome that is not in the document. Do not soften or strengthen its wording. The document is a clearly labelled fictional specimen, so describe its organizations, people, identifiers, and values as illustrative rather than real.

Contrast allowed and not-yet-allowed movements without showing a prohibited movement as a demonstration. FIGURE LOCK: every number, date, identifier, threshold, amount, dose, score, time, temperature, visit window, phone number, and code shown or spoken must be copied from the attached document. Never invent a placeholder or rounded value.

Build this video entirely from the attached document. Title it: The Rehabilitation Roadmap. Turn the care-team deck into a patient roadmap covering evaluation, goals, visit cadence, home practice, reassessment, and discharge. Write the narration yourself from the attached document. No narration script has been supplied. Do not introduce any fact, figure, date, name, instruction, recommendation, legal conclusion, clinical interpretation, benefit, or outcome that is not in the document. Do not soften or strengthen its wording. The document is a clearly labelled fictional specimen, so describe its organizations, people, identifiers, and values as illustrative rather than real.

Build a six-stage path and show where measurements and shared decisions happen. Do not promise a recovery date. FIGURE LOCK: every number, date, identifier, threshold, amount, dose, score, time, temperature, visit window, phone number, and code shown or spoken must be copied from the attached document. Never invent a placeholder or rounded value.

The movement clip, the diagram, and the warning

The knee video (2:11, Canvas, Illustration Expanded) is a document draft of a phase-one home program: order, repetitions, walking, symptom rules, and the progression gate. Its visual direction asks for the positions pictured in the protocol. A generated figure can show purpose and sequence. When the patient has to copy a movement, the frame should carry the therapist’s own demonstration.

That combination is the version to make from the same phase-one protocol:

• Own Media for the demonstration. Insert the approved movement clip, and a still of the setup if you use one (Business and higher). The clip is the movement. A generated body is not a substitute for it, and it is not a clinical assessment of the person watching.
• A diagram for purpose and order. Let Golpo draw why this step comes before the next one, which direction to move, and where the phase ends. The diagram explains. The clip demonstrates.
• Own Narration for the coaching. Own Narration (Business and higher) drives the visuals from the therapist’s approved recording. The recording sets duration and spoken language. A language setting does not translate it. Voice Instructions direct generated narration only.
• Script Mode for the warning. Put the symptom rule, the red/yellow/green contact line, or the stair mnemonic in Script Mode when those words must be spoken as written. Prompt Mode can draft the rest from the protocol. Approve the full narration with Edit script before creating video. About 1,050 characters fit in one selected minute. Layout notes go in Video Instructions.
• Custom Scenes for each action. Give heel slides, quad sets, sit-to-stand, and the stair sequence their own scenes within the engine limit (Custom Scenes, Growth and higher). The map does not rewrite the narration, and it does not prove the movement is correct.
• On-screen text from the script. On-screen text from script only (Canvas and Sketch) limits labels such as repetition counts and UP/DOWN to the script. Golpo may show a subset. The Classic with Words treatment on the walker video is a visual style. It is a separate choice from this label control. Neither one is a caption track, and neither one verifies the protocol.
• Compact or Expanded. The knee video uses Illustration Expanded so each exercise has room. The shoulder video uses Editorial Compact so allowed and not-yet-allowed movements stay in one view. Notebook is Compact-only. Color starts at Growth. See Compact and Expanded.
• Custom Style for the clinic. Save one style from a clinic image, a short clip, or a description and reuse it from My Styles on the knee phase and the next protocol (Custom Style, Business and higher; API use also needs API access). The four examples use different built-in styles so Canvas and Sketch can be compared. A patient library uses one saved style so the videos look like the clinic.

One phase, one correction, the next protocol

1. Source. The approved protocol phase the therapist is about to issue, not a generic exercise list and not an individualized plan the generator invents. The knee PDF above is that kind of approved phase document.
2. Settings. Expanded if each action needs its own room. Custom Scenes so each action is its own scene. Own Media for the movement clip. Script Mode for the warning. One saved Custom Style.
3. Script review. A therapist reads the drafted narration against the protocol, including repetitions, restrictions, and the warning, and approves it before rendering.
4. Result. The 2:11 knee video is the document draft. Add the movement clip, keep the warning in the approved script, and review the frames before you send it with the written protocol.
5. One correction. If a repetition count or a direction label is wrong and the spoken coaching is right, correct that annotation with frame editing (all paid plans). The first edited version is free across sessions until finalized. Later editing is charged on the selected duration of that version and changes the picture. If the warning sentence is wrong, revise the script and render again. Make that label correction on your own phase video.
6. One reuse. The next phase, or the walker-and-stairs sequence, in the same clinic style, with that sequence’s own movement clip and its own checked warning.

Write down the minutes the therapist spends comparing positions, repetitions, restrictions, and the warning. That review time, plus the credits below, is the production cost to track. Recovery and adherence are separate questions.

Plan, selected duration, and credits

Rendered lengths on this page: knee phase one 2:11, walker and stairs 1:54, shoulder precautions 2:07, rehabilitation roadmap 2:21. This page does not record the duration selected in those projects, so count credits from the duration you select. Standard video is 1 credit per selected minute, including a video that inserts a movement clip or uses Own Narration. A 2-minute phase selection is 2 credits. A later frame-edit version of that selection is another 2 credits. Prices are on the pricing page. You can download Golpo's free 1-minute video without a watermark for $9.99, or subscribe to download it at no extra charge.

After one phase is approved in the workspace, the API can request a render from the next approved protocol file and report status. Saved Custom Style can be reused there when you also have API access. Scale includes the API. Business can add it. API Only is metered separately and does not include dashboard generation. The therapist’s review, the patient portal, and the medical record stay outside Golpo.

A protocol library that stays with the phase

1. Separate videos by protocol, phase, procedure, and revision.
2. Generate each one from its approved protocol or home-program document.
3. Put the therapist’s movement clip in any phase where position has to be copied. Keep generated drawings for purpose, order, and the roadmap.
4. Have a therapist compare every depicted position, repetition, restriction, and progression gate with the source. Log that review time.
5. Publish the protocol identifier and review date beside the video in your own system. Retire superseded links there. Watch history is not evidence that an exercise was performed safely, and it is not a reason to progress the patient.

What to check before a patient uses it

• The treating clinician’s plan and the current protocol control. The video is a companion. It is not an independent exercise prescription, and it does not invent exercises for one patient.
• Required movement demonstrations are the therapist’s clips. Generated animation explains. It does not stand in for a hands-on assessment or for competency with an assistive device when the care team requires that assessment.
• Warnings and progression gates match the protocol word for word. A prompt instruction does not verify them.
• Shoulder videos show allowed motion. They do not demonstrate a prohibited movement as if it were practice.
• The roadmap does not promise a recovery date.
• Captions, contrast, and player controls are in place. On-screen labels are not the caption track.
• Public examples use fictional specimen documents. Publishing to the portal stays with the clinic.

Further reading

• APTA Guide to Physical Therapist Practice
• AHRQ PEMAT for audiovisual materials
• CDC STEADI patient and provider resources

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Frequently asked questions

Can Golpo demonstrate exercises from a PDF?

It can turn the protocol into a visual draft of purpose, order, and warnings. A qualified therapist still verifies every position and instruction. When the movement itself must be accurate, insert the therapist's approved demonstration with Own Media. Generated animation does not replace that clip or a clinical assessment.

Can a video replace an in-person demonstration?

No. It is a replayable supplement. It cannot assess technique, pain, balance, environment, or readiness. Use the therapist's movement clip for the motion the patient is supposed to copy.

How should protocols be versioned?

Give each source and video the same protocol ID, phase, effective date, and owner in your own system, then remove superseded links there. Golpo does not retire portal links for you.

Can we make one video for every patient?

A library can cover approved protocols and phases. The treating clinician still selects what applies and documents any individual change. The generator should not invent a personal exercise list.

What if the document and video disagree?

Stop publication. The source controls. Correct a wrong label with frame editing when the spoken line is already right. If the spoken warning or the repetition count in the narration is wrong, revise the script and render again.

What should a rehabilitation pilot measure?

Track source-to-scene defects, patient questions, accessibility findings, and the minutes a therapist spends on review, plus credits for the selected duration and any corrected version. Recovery and adherence are separate questions.

Convert the sequence patients misunderstand in the next protocol

In the next protocol you issue, take the sequence patients most often get out of order. Upload that approved phase, insert the therapist’s movement clip, keep the warning in Script Mode, and correct one label before you send the link with the written protocol. Log the review minutes and the credits. Use the same clinic style on the following phase.

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