how has it made you who you are?

Yeah.

I, I think it has partially made me who I am to a, uh, in various different ways.

I, I honestly can't imagine myself being where I am today without some of the strong foundations that were built in rural small-town community back home.

And so really, you, you mentioned Mid-Minnesota Basketball.

The whole origin story of Mid-Minnesota Basketball was I grew up in Verndale, Minnesota, and if I wanted to play AAU basketball, I was gonna have to travel an hour and a half couple times a week to go to practices, and I was gonna have to pay way more money than my family could afford to pay just for me to chase something that I really enjoyed.

And I knew a lot of kids were in similar positions in that area.

So just wanted to bring that up, but go ahead.

Is the three months accurate? Am I remembering that correctly? And if so, what do you think would happen if we had studies looking at the 12 and 24-month marks?

Yeah, you are remembering correctly.

We focused on kind of the medium term three month time frame as far as our meta analyses are concerned.

And the reason that we didn't do longer duration is because we just don't have enough randomized control trials out there to be able to run a meta analysis that would give us enough valuable insights to make any claims.

So yeah, definitely another thing that we're interested in continuing to investigate because there's a desperate need for it right now.

As far as speculating on what we might see, I would like to think that the PT groups would continue to see less utilization, appropriate utilization, and at the same time, similar if not superior clinical outcomes as well.

It's hard for me to say for sure.

What would it look like for physical therapists to, in primary care settings, triage, so that way patients could get the help they need the quickest from the right provider.