Design a rehabilitation programme the patient will actually do — dosed and progressed against stated criteria, built around their week rather than an ideal one, and with the progression rule written down so it does not depend on being remembered. Use when asked to design a rehab programme, prescribe exercises, progress a rehabilitation plan, or when a patient is not doing their exercises. Produces the programme by phase, the dosage and progression criteria, the adherence design, the reassessment schedule, and the patient-facing version. A structuring framework for a licensed clinician; it prescribes nothing for any individual patient.
“Design a rehab programme for a post-op knee”“My patient is not doing their exercises — how should I change the programme?”“How do I write progression criteria?”“Structure a return-to-running programme”“How many exercises should I give at the first appointment?”
What to give it
▸The assessment findings — the impairments, the irritability, and the stage of healing or condition
▸The goal — what the patient needs to return to, and by when
▸Their week — realistically, how much time and what equipment or space they have
▸What they have tried — previous programmes, what they did and did not do, and why
▸Constraints — other conditions, pain behaviour, load tolerance, and anything contraindicated by the referring clinician
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓The number of exercises reflects the patient's real week
✓Intended difficulty is stated, not just sets and repetitions
✓Progression criteria are written as conditions that can be checked
✓A regression exists for bad days
✓Each exercise has a stated purpose in the patient version
✓The programme is anchored to an existing daily event
✓Reassessment is scheduled at the point of prescription
✓Clinical determinations are left to the treating clinician
⚠️ What it refuses to do
**Eight exercises at the first visit.** Guarantees partial adherence and uninterpretable results.
**Sets and reps with no intended effort.** The most common cause of under-dosed, ineffective rehab.
**'Progress when ready'.** Not a criterion; progression then happens by accident or not at all.
**No plan for a flare.** The patient stops altogether and returns having done nothing.
**Exercises with no stated purpose.** Feels arbitrary and is abandoned first.
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp