Three-quarters of patients with smart orthopedic implants come in seeking reassurance, not emergency care. Showing them their joint performs at the 70th percentile often prevents unnecessary ER visits, imaging, and procedures, cutting costs while improving their experience.
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. And, and I would say that 75% of the people I saw were there for reassurance, right? It's, you know, it's the pizza. You're not having a heart attack, right? But everybody wonders what's going on. Is this normal? Is that not normal? And so, in my opinion, just the reassurance of looking at, say, oh, I'm at the 70th percentile, fantastic. Maybe keeps me out of the emergency room. Maybe that's an MRI that You know, I don't go to my doctor saying, oh, I'm kind of worried, and I end up getting an X-ray and MRI, a bunch of other things, or I go to the ER and, and some guy like me puts a needle in the joint. Yeah. So I, yeah, I think the value of, of just that reassurance is, is incredible for the patient, but I think it's actually really valuable for the system too.