In today's episode we speak to Ryan Grant, Founder and CEO of Vori Health. Vori Health is an all inclusive medical and health provider practicing holistic integrated approach starting with musculoskeletal care, it offers full service physical medicine rehabilitation care, physical therapy, prescriptions imaging and lab ordering, health coaching, nutritional guidance, community support and premium instructional content. The team consists of carefully selected board members across physicians licensed health care providers. Provides health services that are accessible at a click of a button from the comfort, convenience and privacy of a patient's home.
We kick off by asking Ryan what has lead him to this point, his career and why Vori Health:
- Yale University
- Neurosurgeon
- Google Health
- Well trained as a spine surgeon
- Mental health
- Unnecessary surgery
- Surgical revenue
- Incentives are miss aligned
We ask Ryan what is the impact with people reporting back pain because they are spending more time sat in a chair as they are no longer to commuting to work since COVID:
- One in four people are actively depressed
- Pain and dysfunction
- It has increased depression due to isolation, lonely and sad
- Increased amounts of pain and neck pain because of the way they are sitting
We get into mental health and ask Ryan, what is the medical balance:
- Social media are increasing depression
- Fear of missing out
- People don't generally share their bad days
- Biased views
Instant gratification, we ask Ryan to share with us what are his concerns and what trends he sees and how Vori Health shakes things up:
- Instant access to information
- People are not disconnecting, even on vacation
- Desensitised
- Designed to give you that good feeling
- Less happy
- Heavily false
- A perfect image, is abnormal
- It's the patients choice
We then have Ryan tell us why he thinks corporate environments are paying more attention to their employees wellness today:
- It's the right thing to do
- Higher rights of burnouts
- Work ethics, how much harder can you work next year
- Home is the office now
- Promote wellness, they will actually be more productive
We move on to ask Ryan what his expansion plan is:
- Health coaches
- Nutritionists
- Social workers
- True care teams
- Share decision making
What does the future look like to Ryan and why so passionate?
- People should be treated like family
- Patient centric
- Re-humanize medicine
