Physical Therapy Exercises 2.2.1.0, 25 January 2023

Host: Club Cruceros, La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico
Base: DJM Questor Software

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Overview

The Physical Therapy Exercises app is a special purpose text-to-speech and speech recognition computer program for aiding in the application of rehabilitation exercises.

I wrote this program because I experienced closure of the neck spinal column that caused me to be unable to walk. Following surgery, I entered a rehabilitation facility where physical therapists aided in my recovery. The recovery required me to perform various balance improvement and muscle strengthening exercises. I wrote this program to assist me in performing the prescribed exercise routines. After using the program for three months and with the aid of a cane, I can now walk a mile and more around the neighborhood. Therefore, I am making this program available, free of charge, in the event, it might aid others.

Using Microsoft text-to-speech voices, the program reads and speaks the text of exercise files.

The exercises provided with this program are slightly more extensive than those employed in the rehab-facility and may not be applicable to your needs. However, the exercises are in text-files that you can edit to customize to your needs. Also, the program contains an exercise generator to assist in the creation of custom exercises.

The program can optionally use limited speech recognition for stopping, resuming, and repeating the exercises.

Download

The Physical Therapy Exercises app requires the Windows 10 OS Build 17763 or greater. To determine your Windows 10 version, type "winver" in the Cortana search text box.

To download:
Get it from Microsoft

Alternatively, to download the sideload package,
click How to download and sideload the the app.

Launch the program

  1. When you launch the program, the program will display a disclaimer. Upon accepting the disclaimer, the program will continue to run; otherwise, the program will exit.
  2. The program will list the currently installed Microsoft text-to-speech voices and will provide the instructions to download new voices.
  3. The program will ask for the location of the program's document folder. For a new installation, you can create the folder on any storage device and you can name the folder as desired (for example: My Physical Therapy Exercises.)
  4. The program will copy the installation Exercises into your new document folder.
  5. The program will load the file "Character Voice Test.exercise". The text will provide instructions for you to test the installed voices.
  6. Optionally, you can use the "Speech Recognition Test.exercise" to setup and to practice the voice commands. To open the exercise, select the "..." more menu "Recognition" command.
  7. To change the assigned voices, select the "..." more menu button on the top menu bar and then select the "Character voices" command.
  8. To customize the exercize sequence from individual exercise files, click the "Exercise Sequencer" command on the top menu bar.
  9. To open individual exercise files, select the "..." more button "Exercises files" command.
  10. For additional help, select the [...] menu button and then select the "Help" command.

Release History

Validation: Windows program Certification

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