Better Than Before After a Leg Injury

I came to MedMatrix a bit of a circuitous route. I go to a gym up in Falmouth with Brian, who I know works here, and so I came there because of an injury that I had about 5 years ago and needed some personal training to help get back from an injury. I had a bad leg injury, so lower extremity thing was very difficult to uh work out. I gained a lot of weight, had a lot of issues kind of getting back to my normal active settings. Brian was instrumental in forming a workout plan for me, but had mentioned MedMatrix as the other half of it, kind of getting the physical side, but also optimizing your body from a whole bunch of other different options. That was my introduction here, and kind of the two of them [clears throat] together has really formed a great way for me to get back better than I was before, but I was kind of [snorts] feeling very stuck before that, and that combination really helped me get over the top. All right. So, your first interaction post-Brian with MedMatrix was a discovery call. Do you remember anything about it? For me personally, I'm I'm in the healthcare field. I'm always curious. I It's weird to be a patient because I'm usually the provider, so it's funny to be on the other side of things, but I found it to be very welcoming, non-judgmental cuz I think people come here for different reasons, and some of them are very personal and even sometimes embarrassing, so I think this was a very welcoming environment. Everyone who I have interacted with has been very helpful and just sort of optimistic about the process, always checking in. So, I think that it's a really a team-based approach, which is nice. Awesome. All right. And what about that initial visit here? Initial visit was I was a little nervous to come in again kind of being a patient as opposed to a provider, but I I was at a point that I realized I couldn't do it on my own and needed some guidance. And I think that's what I really got from here was a personalized plan. There's so much out there in the ether that you can find that are fads and not sustainable, but this felt very personalized and tailored to what I could do and what I could accomplish and that was from day one. So your initial lab draw, how was that? And the inbody, have you done one of those before and were they probably I've done inbody with the gym up there, so I was very familiar with that process. I I really like [clears throat] that scan as opposed to just a scale which doesn't tell you what your body is doing. And the inbody has been a really nice way to track goals which for me have not just been weight loss, but had sort of again body optimization of changing fat to muscle and all those things and that that's really a nice tool to have here and and at the gym as well. So you've been like tracking it in both places. Mhm. I love yep. Yep, I use it almost every time I'm there just to make sure I have a a good baseline to follow and the app on your phone is super easy that you can look at it from home or do whatever you need to from that. Interesting. And I'm also wondering a lot of people like come in and they get the inbody, we go through the results and a lot of people don't know what the terminology is, what we're describing, what our team is describing. But you said you're a provider, so you do. So I want to know kind of what that experience was like. like I was talking to a peer as opposed to a provider-patient interaction. I think there there's both there. I think I I had done a fair amount of research before on my own before coming in here and so knowing what I knew but was only a a of what the providers here know and what their specialty is. I don't tend to think that I know anything about what this is like versus what I do. So, it was nice to have expert people in the field, but be able to talk on the same level as providers. Okay, very cool. So, the initial visit, do you mind if I ask who your providers are? Um I don't know if I remember, to be honest. Okay, that's fine. Yeah. Um but that initial visit with them, uh what was that like going in versus coming out? I went in with sort of an amorphous plan of what I thought I might wanted and I came out with a concrete personalized plan, which felt that there were achievable steps to get through as opposed to sort of all I'll sell you this and then never talk with you again. I felt like it was a very personalized thing, where we're going to follow you over days to weeks and check in and have goals and and kind of checkpoints again, so that you're not lost to the system. You sort of feel that you have a partner with you and as long as you are invested, they fully are, too. So, it it's really getting to where you want to go together. Awesome. And what about some of those pain points that you were feeling, the challenges you were facing? How are you dealing with them now? Now is it feels kind of like auto, to be honest. It's been a number of years since since the injury, since getting on the right track, but I was never looking for a short-term fix, cuz I just know those don't work. It's about the long-term sustainable plan and ever since starting [snorts] here, you know, shout out to Alana in at the front. I mean, she's very responsive to any questions I have. I feel like she's always checking her inbox after hours or whenever. So, I I get questions answered as as soon as I need them and and don't feel like I'm doing this alone. So, that's helpful. That's really all my questions about your care. Do you have anything else that you want to talk about? I think for anybody who's considering coming here, it it can be a hard first step to kind of get over that initial just angst or worry about where you want to go, but I would say that the people here will tailor whatever your goals are and then be able to suggest things that you may not have even known exist. And and that's to me, too. I I've certainly done some things now with them that are a lot more personalized to what the goals that I have that are more than just weight loss. They're really trying to optimize where you are at in your mid whatever I am now. So, that's a really nice capacity for this this center to offer. It's sort of a very just holistic approach. It's not things that are just trying to get to where you want to go quickly, but it's sort of a sustained pathway that that makes me feel like this is something I can do for the long term. You answered my next question, which was you know, what would you say to somebody on the edge of that decision? [clears throat] Um but okay, so how would you describe functional medicine to somebody who really doesn't know what it is? Functional medicine, hmm, that's a good question. So, I think in the broader scheme people think of health care as I have a problem and I need to get health care to fix that problem and then it's over. I think functional medicine says not just what is that specific problem, but is it related to other things that you may not have thought about that are interwoven. And I certainly had that issue with with my injury and was very focused on the the very specific part of it and neglected a lot of the other parts that [snorts] once I had that experience of people looking at more of it the from the whole body perspective, the improvement started. And I don't think I would have got there without understanding that there's the problem to fix, but understanding if you step back kind of the forest through the trees to realize that there's usually more to it than just one issue and if you address all of them concurrently with the same thing you might get better than where you were thinking before. Incredible. All right. Well, thank you so much. That was all my questions. Very good. [laughter] I appreciate that. So excellent answers and also, you know, thank you.