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Recovery Outcomes is the goal, not PT tech to do exercises

7 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker outlines the fundamental problem of getting patients to actively engage with their care plans. To solve this, they created a bio‑psycho‑social program that defines distinct human archetypes and behavior profiles. By understanding how each archetype prefers to be coached—whether through motivation, empathy, cajoling, or a more forceful push—the program aligns the delivery method (app‑based or human coach) with the individual’s behavioral style, aiming to boost adherence and ultimately improve recovery outcomes.

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But it fundamentally started with this premise of what is it going to take to get a human being to engage in their plan of care, right? And that's the code that we cracked. That is the most difficult problem to solve. So what we ended up doing is we fundamentally created archetypes and behavior profiles of a human being. Our program is a bio-psycho-social program. So we started looking at it. And that gave us an opportunity to understand how people like to be coached, cajoled, motivated, kicked, pushed, empathy shown. And whether it's the app or the human coach, the engagement is aligned to their behavior and their archetype.