An interactive touchscreen workstation is disclosed for generating
patient-specific physical therapy videotapes. The workstation generally
includes an appropriately programmed, digital central processing unit;
first storage means for storing digital video exercise data; second
storage means for storing digital audio exercise data; third storage means
for storing digital patient data; fourth storage means for storing digital
audio music data; user interface controls for directing the operation of
the central processing unit so as to (i) generate a sequence of digital
video frames from the data contained in the first storage means, with that
sequence corresponding to a particular physical therapy regimen prescribed
for that patient, and (ii) generate a digital audio track from the digital
audio exercise data contained in the second storage mean, and/or the
digital audio music data contained in the fourth storage means, with the
digital audio track generated by the central processing unit corresponding
to the sequence of digital video frames generated by the central
processing unit; and output means for recording the sequence of digital
video frames generated by the central processing unit and digital audio
track generated by the central processing unit on a standard videotape,
which videotape can thereafter be used by a patient to conduct
"watch-and-do" physical therapy by playing back the videotape while
simultaneously carrying out the regimen of physical therapy exercises
specified in, and illustrated by, that same videotape.