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>> I was riding my bicycle,
fell off my bicycle and injured my knee pretty badly.
I had a complete tear of
my posterior meniscus so I needed to have surgery.
After surgery, I then met with therapy.
>> I've had some injuries and a lot of broken bones.
I've had one surgery where I had a plate inserted into my leg.
As far as my post-playing days,
there's some aches and pains,
but I've seen much worse.
I've seen a lot of guys that have had
over 10 surgeries throughout their career
and now they're still having surgeries post career.
>> Strive was something I had heard
of just through having worked in healthcare.
I spoke to my surgeon about that and we decided to use that.
I think I was one of the earlier ones to use it.
>> The beauty of Strive is that,
for these guys who maybe aren't
moving around as well as they used to,
to be able to manage themselves and to
communicate with their provider and their doctor
from their home and not have to always physically get up
and move away and travel to go see someone is a great benefit.
>> One of the benefits of Strive was that
your communication with the physician is you can do it via video,
which is what we did for quite a few of
our appointments because his office is in
the hospital and I really didn't want to go to the hospital
so we did a lot of televisits.
>> I'm investing my time with it because of,
like I said, what it offers.
When I think about my own profession,
playing football for so many years,
thinking about ways that it can help former players,
I think, was a big push for me.
>> Strive MedTech is a virtual healthcare platform
that was invented by
an orthopedic surgeon so we
know how it is from a healthcare provider standpoint.
We were funded by TitletownTech,
which is a partnership between
Microsoft and the Green Bay Packers.
That help has been really important
for us as an early stage startup.
We have wearable sensors that pair with a smart device and allows
information to flow between the care team and
the patient to help keep them
connected throughout the patient's episode of care.
>> There were directions with it.
Actually, you download the app and it
tells you how to do that when you got your sensors.
>> They login to that on a daily basis and answer the questions.
>> There is a sensor that
is connected with the band above your knee and below your knee,
and then you turn it on on your phone when you're using the app.
My phone was never far away from me
because I could see how far I was flexing my knee,
how far I was extending it,
how long I was doing it,
and it gave you goals every week.
>> Then all of their data is then saved in the Cloud.
It's secure and HIPAA compliant.
>> You can see your improvement.
I was doing this for weeks.
I could go back and look at how I was doing and how I've improved.
My numbers improved.
You could see your improvement along the way.
That was motivating.
That was helpful as well.
>> We're using Microsoft technology, actually,
utilizing the Azure Cloud solution for all of our servers.
All of our patient information is stored
securely on the Azure servers.
>> The technology,
they can tell, they can go back.
If I go into a physician's office and I'm not healing well,
my physician then could go online and look at
my results and pinpoint what exercise am I not doing enough of,
what do I need to change in my therapy plan.
I mean, really, it's amazing.
Think about the care that you're
getting without even seeing a doctor.
>> I think it's just a great thing to have, man,
to where you can still
live your life and still take care of your body.
>> My physician tell me that I did very well.
I think that I give a lot of that credit to Strive in keeping
me competitive and keeping me motivated to exercise everyday.
>> Don't be afraid of progress.
That's what I would tell anybody that's skeptical of using Strive.
The other thing is that it's not going to hurt you.
There's nothing invasive
that you have to go through. It's an app.
You use apps every day so I would say, hey,
if you're skeptical about using Strive, hey,
you use your apps every day whether you're playing a game,
or like I say,
ordering food or whatnot.
Then you place the sensors and it records your movements,
and your flexibility,
and those sorts of things,
and that information then goes straight to your doctor. That's it.