You’re Entering the Healthcare System in the Wrong Place

Let me ask you this.

So at what point in the journey, like we talked about, just to reiterate, access, imaging, procedures, coordination, communication, at what point in this journey does our current system stop trying to actually fix the patient and just kind of start feeding itself? Because every step along the way is, I just hear the cash register, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, all the way through.

And it is because they've entered the system at the wrong spot.

So there's nobody putting their hands on someone doing a full evaluation of a musculoskeletal issue and actually treating it.

So when you see musculoskeletal and we'll get into what Solve Global does in a bit.

But what the key thing is, is that you have to understand the biomechanical cause.

And when someone comes in and tells me my shoulder hurts, that statement's over in two seconds.

OK, I know their shoulder hurts, but if I'm going to treat it effectively, I've got to know the biomechanical cause that is continuing to irritate that treatment.

Otherwise, I'm going to give something to mask it, which is what medication does.

And I'm not going to treat the underlying cause of what is irritated.

And so I got to find all the friends that a shoulder has in the body and make sure that they're doing their job while I'm treating the shoulder as well.

And that's a complicated thing for most practitioners because that's just not how they're geared.

That's what therapists do, though.

And so we're able to do that and rebalance that person.

and then help them with corrective exercises and movements to restore that function to that area.

I love what you said of the patients are entering in the wrong spot.

I think that's just absolutely brilliant.

And I think most of our shows could actually be boiled down to that statement right there, Tim.

Looking at that statement of, hey, these people, instead of entering at a physical therapy side of it, they're already going to the EMD side.

If they are entering in the wrong spots, is this because, again, I'm going to try to get down to kind of root cause here, are incentives... to blame for this or is it just an old fashioned, I didn't know better?

I think there's a little bit of all of that.

And so, you know, there's a lot of people say, well, I've got to see a doctor first or I should get an MRI first.

There's a couple of studies that were just recently done that have come out that said that a very high percentage, I'm going to space the name, but it was a JAMA article.

And I want to say it was over 80%.

80% of people had a rotator cuff tear, asymptomatic in throwers, people throwing a baseball, showing a significant tear.

Let me ask you this.

So at what point in the journey, like we talked about, just to reiterate, access, imaging, procedures, coordination, communication, at what point in this journey does our current system stop trying to actually fix the patient and just kind of start feeding itself? Because every step along the way is, I just hear the cash register, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, all the way through.

And it is because they've entered the system at the wrong spot.

So there's nobody putting their hands on someone doing a full evaluation of a musculoskeletal issue and actually treating it.

So when you see musculoskeletal and we'll get into what Solve Global does in a bit.

But what the key thing is, is that you have to understand the biomechanical cause.

And when someone comes in and tells me my shoulder hurts, that statement's over in two seconds.

OK, I know their shoulder hurts, but if I'm going to treat it effectively, I've got to know the biomechanical cause that is continuing to irritate that treatment.

Otherwise, I'm going to give something to mask it, which is what medication does.

And I'm not going to treat the underlying cause of what is irritated.

And so I got to find all the friends that a shoulder has in the body and make sure that they're doing their job while I'm treating the shoulder as well.

And that's a complicated thing for most practitioners because that's just not how they're geared.

That's what therapists do, though.

And so we're able to do that and rebalance that person.

and then help them with corrective exercises and movements to restore that function to that area.

I love what you said of the patients are entering in the wrong spot.

I think that's just absolutely brilliant.

And I think most of our shows could actually be boiled down to that statement right there, Tim.

Looking at that statement of, hey, these people, instead of entering at a physical therapy side of it, they're already going to the EMD side.

If they are entering in the wrong spots, is this because, again, I'm going to try to get down to kind of root cause here, are incentives... to blame for this or is it just an old fashioned, I didn't know better?

I think there's a little bit of all of that.

And so, you know, there's a lot of people say, well, I've got to see a doctor first or I should get an MRI first.

There's a couple of studies that were just recently done that have come out that said that a very high percentage, I'm going to space the name, but it was a JAMA article.

And I want to say it was over 80%.

80% of people had a rotator cuff tear, asymptomatic in throwers, people throwing a baseball, showing a significant tear.