TracPatch sensors track ACL surgery recovery in 40 patients, but positioning them under knee braces and managing compliance across teenage, athletic, and 70+ year old patients poses real challenges. Older adults stick with the program better than teens distracted by phones, though real-time feedback lets parents catch when kids skip their rehab.
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And so we have collected our first 40 patients on ACL as well. And so that's a— and what we found is there's, there's a number of things going on that are different. So one is that you're wearing a brace is the biggest. And so we had to figure out how do you position the sensors in such a way and run the calibration in such a way that you can get around that, particularly if the patient is an ACL plus meniscus. And so we're, we're trying to solve all these problems along the way to get to that, to get to a solution that makes sense. But we're also dealing with a different population. Now we're dealing with athletes that are, that care about performance, but we're also dealing with 16-year-olds and that's a, that's a different deal. And believe it or not, the, um, the 70-year-olds are more compliant than, than a lot of these, uh, 15 and 16-year-olds. Because they're like, they, there's like a usability thing for it, or they're more busy looking at their phone for their apps instead of looking at TrackPatch. And so we've actually had cases where we had parents like lecturing their kid to, to do their exercises because we could see that they weren't doing it, which was pretty funny.