{"id":25958134,"date":"2020-06-24T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakenona1stg.wpenginepowered.com\/qa-physical-therapy-provider-moves-hq-to-lake-nona\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T06:04:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T06:04:09","slug":"qa-physical-therapy-provider-moves-hq-to-lake-nona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/blog\/qa-physical-therapy-provider-moves-hq-to-lake-nona\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A: Physical therapy provider moves HQ to Lake Nona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meet the doctor and Lake Nona resident bringing physical therapy into the digital age.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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An orthopedic surgeon, husband, and father of four, Reuben Gobezie, MD is a nationally-recognized leader in shoulder care and the co-founder of PT Genie<\/a>, a home-based physical therapy provider now headquartered in the GuideWell Innovation Center.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PT Genie is advancing the field of physical therapy with a system that helps patients and providers across the country stay connected online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr.\nGobezie moved to Lake Nona four years ago and says his love for our community\nand watching Medical City expand inspired him to relocate his digital health\ncompany from Cleveland, Ohio to Lake Nona. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this Q&A, Dr. Gobezie shares how PT Genie evolved from a research project to a leading company for outpatient care – and a preview of other projects he’s working on in Lake Nona. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Q. Tell us about your backstory \u2013 What lead you to pursue a career in orthopedics?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My\ndad was a doctor in Southern California. He was the chief of staff at a\nhospital for 17 years in the town where I grew up. I used to work in the\nhospital and over the years, I had the opportunity to meet all kinds of doctors\nin internal medicine, cardiology, pulmonology, orthopedics, and general\nsurgery. I would pay attention to how they lived and worked and the doctors in\northopedics seemed to have a lot of fun and their patients did well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fundamentally,\northopedics is about restoring mechanical function to the body and relieving\npain. I love orthopedics because it\u2019s about saving quality of life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q.\nHow did PT Genie come to life? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\ndo a lot of clinical research on all the different ways we can do things better\nin orthopedics. I’ve designed shoulder replacements used around the country and\nimplants used for repairing biceps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About\nfive or six years ago, a friend from Harvard Medical School and I were\nresearching the value of rehab between the patient, the physical therapist and\nthe doctor. One of our challenges was understanding how effective a procedure\nor intervention was if we couldn\u2019t account for the quality of rehab between\npatient visits. PT Genie was really in our heads as a research tool that turned\ninto a leading company for outpatient monitoring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services came out with remote patient monitoring codes<\/a> that launched us into redesigning our software around an infrastructure that helps patients do therapy from home wearing digital sensors as they follow specific exercises on a screen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PT\nGenie is prescribed by a health care provider to give the patient an on-demand\nexperience so they can do therapy on their own time following a rehab protocol\ndesigned by their doctors from our library of more than 400 exercises. It\u2019s all\nsaved in a cloud-based system where you, your doctor, and physical therapist\ncan track your progress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Q. Why did you decide to move your headquarters to Lake Nona? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been wintering in Florida for about 11 years, living on the west side of Orlando until about four years ago when my family and I moved to Lake Nona Golf & Country Club<\/a>. I love Lake Nona and I think Tavistock is doing a great job developing the area, especially Medical City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\nwanted to move our PT Genie headquarters to Lake Nona where there is a lot\ngrowth and opportunity for new businesses in the tech and biotech space. We\u2019re\nexcited to be part of the movement in Lake Nona to have a more meaningful\nimpact on health and wellness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q.\nWhat is your vision for the future of PT Genie? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m\none of the busiest shoulder replacement surgeons in the country, but if you\nasked me what the best rehab protocol is for shoulders I could only tell you\nwhat I think because there isn\u2019t any data for me to compare my rehab protocol\nto the next doctor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With\nPT Genie, we\u2019ll begin to understand what exercises work best from patient to\npatient based on things like age and gender. This evolution of data will help\ninform physicians and patients about the best rehab protocol for their recovery\nand what providers offer the best outcomes by region or hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q.\nDo you envision any other uses of PT Genie – can it be used in other areas of\nhealth care? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside\nof physical therapy, PT Genie has a strong retail component. Think about sports\nand off-season training. I can\u2019t tell you how many kids I see with injuries who\ndidn\u2019t have any off-season training to keep their shoulders healthy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, research has shown that the right off-season training program can reduce adolescent baseball injuries by 60%. In adolescence, girls have a higher rate of ACL rupture than boys who play pivot and shift sports like soccer or volleyball. Because of this, we\u2019re working with Dr. Daryl Osbahr, chief of sports medicine at Orlando Health<\/a> and team doctor for Orlando City Soccer Club<\/a>, to develop a female athlete ACL prevention program. Like the research on off-season training for baseball, you can reduce female adolescent ACL rupture with the right training. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q.\nWhat other projects are you working on? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to PT Genie, I\u2019m transitioning my orthopedic practice<\/a>, from Cleveland to Lake Nona where I\u2019ll continue to offer outpatient shoulder surgery to patients from all over the country. I\u2019m also working with a local hospital network to develop a world-class shoulder center in Orlando. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/a> to learn more about PT Genie. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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