Clinical home exercises for your app, by API

What's in the library

• 355exercises
• 34programs by condition
• 11body regions

• Ankle Pumps
  1. Lie down or sit with your legs straight.
  2. Point your toes away from you, then pull them back toward you.
  3. Continue in a steady rhythm.

  1 set · 20 reps · Every hour while awake

  Illustration generated with AI and reviewed by a licensed clinician.

• Chin Tuck
  1. Sit or stand tall looking straight ahead.
  2. Gently glide your chin straight back, making a double chin.
  3. Hold, then relax.

  1 set · 10 reps · hold 5s · 3x/day

  Illustration generated with AI and reviewed by a licensed clinician.

• Clamshell
  1. Lie on your side with your hips and knees bent and your feet together.
  2. Keeping your feet touching, lift your top knee as high as you can without rolling your hips back.
  3. Slowly lower your knee back down.

  3 sets · 10 reps · 1x/day

  Illustration generated with AI and reviewed by a licensed clinician.

Each exercise has steps, cautions, default sets, reps and frequency, body region, position, equipment and conditions, start and end pictures with alt text, and the date a licensed therapist reviewed it.

Why license instead of build

• ✓No filming, writing or editingEvery exercise comes with plain-language steps, cautions, default dosing and start and end pictures.
• ✓Reviewed by a licensed therapistEach exercise is signed off by a clinician before it's published, and the date is in the data.
• ✓Kept currentNew exercises and fixes reach you through updated_at and, on Growth, a change feed.
• ✓Ready to printGrowth includes a print-ready handout PDF for every exercise.
• ✓No patient dataThe API only serves library content. Nothing about your patients is sent or stored.
• ✓Built for rehabHome exercise content for PT, OT and post-op programs, not gym workouts.

One request away

curl https://hepondemand.com/api/v1/exercises?body_region=knee \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer hod_test_…"

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "b86e9a33-797d-421c-ad97-68c6dba2b4d8",
      "slug": "ankle-pumps",
      "name": "Ankle Pumps",
      "aliases": [
        "Ankle pump",
        "Ankle circulation exercise"
      ],
      "body_region": [
        "ankle-foot"
      ],
      "conditions": [
        "achilles-tendonitis",
        "ankle-sprain",
        "hip-replacement",
        "knee-replacement"
      ],
      "equipment": [
        "none"
      ],
      "position": [
        "supine"
      ],
      "movement": [
        "range-of-motion"
      ],
      "specialty": [
        "geriatrics-fall-prevention",
        "orthopedic-msk"
      ],
      "difficulty": "easy",
      "steps": [
        "Lie down or sit with your legs straight.",
        "Point your toes away from you, then pull them back toward you."
      ],
      "cues": null,
      "cautions": null,
      "default_dosage": {
        "sets": 1,
        "reps": 20,
        "hold_seconds": null,
        "rest_seconds": null,
        "side": "both",
        "frequency": "Every hour while awake",
        "resistance": null
      },
      "images": [
        {
          "role": "start",
          "alt_text": "Ankle Pumps: start position",
          "ai_generated": true,
          "disclosure": "Illustration generated with AI and reviewed by a licensed clinician.",
          "width": null,
          "height": null,
          "thumbnail_url": "https://hepondemand.com/api/v1/images/…",
          "full_url": "https://hepondemand.com/api/v1/images/…",
          "expires_at": "2026-11-07T01:00:00.000Z"
        }
      ],
      "clinically_reviewed_at": "2026-10-01T01:35:39.761Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:26.109Z",
      "attribution": "Exercises by HEPonDemand",
      "disclaimer": "For use under the direction of a licensed clinician. Not medical advice."
    }
  ],
  "page": 1,
  "per_page": 1,
  "total": 20,
  "has_more": true
}

Read the quickstart and reference, or download the OpenAPI file and Postman collection.

The license in plain words

The license is non-exclusive: other apps may license the same library. Content is provided as is, for education. Clinical use is the licensee's and the treating clinician's responsibility. Our liability is capped at the fees you paid in the previous 12 months. Read the full license.