Jul 1, 2026 · 37 min · 14 segments
**Access to care remains one of healthcare's biggest challenges—especially in physical therapy, where patients often travel hours for a single appointment.** **In this episode of Med Tech Gurus, we…
Ashok GuptaGuestTom HickeyHostSo I'd like to start off with, as we mentioned in the introduction, you saw firsthand that access was the core problem.
At that moment, you realized that virtual physical therapy wasn't just possible, it was necessary.
Patients were driving like an hour, two hours for a 30-minute session, mainly because they didn't have access to a good facility nearby.
Simply stopped going many of them, like towards the end of it, as soon as they get a little bit better and they think like, oh, I can get by.
Now, that was not the best of the decision for a majority of the patient population because after some time, the whole problem reoccur and then they have to go through the entire program.
So that's when we saw tele-mental health or tele-psychiatry growing up pretty quickly in the 2015-2016 timeframe.
So we started to think about how can we not do movement therapy also if the mental health and mental therapy can be done virtually.
And today we are running a successful company around tele-health physical therapy.
So I'd like to start off with, as we mentioned in the introduction, you saw firsthand that access was the core problem.
At that moment, you realized that virtual physical therapy wasn't just possible, it was necessary.
Patients were driving like an hour, two hours for a 30-minute session, mainly because they didn't have access to a good facility nearby.
Simply stopped going many of them, like towards the end of it, as soon as they get a little bit better and they think like, oh, I can get by.
Now, that was not the best of the decision for a majority of the patient population because after some time, the whole problem reoccur and then they have to go through the entire program.
So that's when we saw tele-mental health or tele-psychiatry growing up pretty quickly in the 2015-2016 timeframe.
So we started to think about how can we not do movement therapy also if the mental health and mental therapy can be done virtually.
And today we are running a successful company around tele-health physical therapy.
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