Healthy Cells, Healthy You with Janet Walker

Can One Simple Device Change Your Knee Replacement Journey?

• Janet Walker • Season 4 • Episode 2

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Ready to change the way you recover from knee replacement surgery? In this engaging episode, We speak with Shehla Rooney, a physical therapist and the creator of the revolutionary GoKnee program. With her extensive experience treating geriatric patients, Shehla noticed a gap in aftercare for knee surgeries—a gap she sought to fill with her innovative device and home exercise plan designed specifically for knee replacement recovery. 

Uncover how GoKnee empowers patients to take charge of their rehabilitation from the comfort of their homes, utilizing evidence-based techniques usually reserved for in-person therapy. This episode dives deep into the multifaceted benefits of GoKnee, showcasing its ability to significantly enhance recovery speed and outcomes through simple, effective exercises. Shella shares her journey of creating a robust program that prioritizes individual health needs, ensuring that every aspect of recovery—from pain management to strength building—is addressed efficiently.

Be sure to visit GoKnee's website to find more resources and for Healthy Cells, Healthy You listeners, get a special offer to purchase. Join our vibrant community; subscribe and share your experiences as we strive toward better health together!

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Janet Walker:

In today's computerized-driven world, we hear a lot about advanced technology that helps strengthen or heal our bodies, but sometimes a simple device with the know-how and expertise behind it can work wonders. Welcome listeners, to Healthy Cells Healthy you. Today I'm talking again to Shella Rooney, physical therapist and creator of a home physical therapy knee program called GoKnee that can help you in your quest for healthier knees or help you recover from knee replacement surgery. Welcome to Healthy Cells Healthy you. I'm your host, janet Walker.

Janet Walker:

I've been working in the healthcare community for over 30 years and for 20 of those years I've also worked in the healthcare community for over 30 years and for 20 of those years I've also worked as a writer and producer for the Windsor Broadcasting award winning national PBS health information TV shows, american Health Journal and Innovations in Medicine. We've interviewed thousands of doctors, scientists and researchers on every topic related to health, medicine and medical technology. You can watch current episodes of Innovations in Medicine on your local PBS channel or you can stream our programs on the American Health Journal channel, the Better Health channel and TV Healthy Kids. I'm also a new host for Windsor's award-winning podcast entitled Better Wellness Better Wellness assisted knee program that helps prepare patients for knee surgery and helps them get improved outcomes following their knee replacement procedure. Thanks for coming back to Healthy Cells. Healthy you for our knee series Shella.

Shehla Rooney:

Oh, I'm so excited to be here again. Thank you.

Janet Walker:

Hopefully our listeners were here for the last episode where we talked to you and you gave us so much good information about knee replacement surgery and physical therapy. Now we're going to talk about a device and program that you created for knee replacement patients. First, let's start by telling us a little bit about your background.

Shehla Rooney:

Well, I've been a PT for 26 years and the bulk of it has been in treating geriatrics in a variety of settings. I do have a board certification, which is just a fancy way of saying I've done a ton of additional training and studying on the older adult, which you know. Random fact, I'm officially in that category after turning 50 last month, and I think what I want people to know is I've always been a lifelong learner and educator. I've been instrumental in teaching hundreds of students and mentoring residents and residency programs. You know, been instrumental in teaching hundreds of students and mentoring residents and residency programs. You know I've spoken nationally about geriatric related topics and you know internationally about knee replacement recovery, and so you know, most recently, my claim to fame, which is why I'm here today is I patented and created a knee device that we called GoKnee.

Janet Walker:

So what gave you the inspiration to develop the GoKnee device and protocol knee?

Shehla Rooney:

So what gave you the inspiration to develop the GoKnee device and protocol. Well, let me first say I am not a creative person by nature. I had no intent of becoming an inventor. But, as they say, necessity is the mother of invention.

Shehla Rooney:

One patient struggling after knee replacement surgery and creating a solution for him, I realized that there was a void in the system when it came to knee replacement recovery. So, you know, insurance is covering less postoperative physical therapy than early in my career it used to be. You'd go to inpatient rehab for like three weeks inpatient, three hours of therapy every day, seven days a week. Well, that's not happening anymore. Copay costs are increasing and a lot of people can't afford their PT copay costs. Patients are getting younger and they're looking for like alternatives and they're going online to find these alternatives. And then, in addition to that, the home exercise program for knee replacement patients is like it's outdated. They are the same exercises being prescribed that I was taught in PT school like 26 years ago and I just knew there had to be a better way. I always joke with my patients that you know there's like 700,000 individuals that are going to have knee replacement surgery next year.

Shehla Rooney:

And that I am certain, if I talked to all 700,000 of them, they would agree that they want a faster, smoother, less painful recovery after the surgery. And so to me, that's the reason Go Knee was born, and I continue to strive to grow it more.

Janet Walker:

And that 700,000 number, that's not hyperbole. I checked statistics and there are 700,000 Americans every year that get knee replacement surgery. And those are statistics from the American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons.

Shehla Rooney:

Yeah, it's the most frequently performed orthopedic procedure. I tell this to my children because they don't think knee replacements are sexy and glamorous, but I'm like it is the most orthopedic, like it's the most performed orthopedic procedure in the United States.

Janet Walker:

Did you hear that kids go to medical school and become a surgeon for knee replacement surgery?

Shehla Rooney:

Yes, you'll have job security for life.

Janet Walker:

Can you describe the GoKnee device and program?

Shehla Rooney:

Yes, okay, so GoKnee is like a fully functioning knee recovery program that you do at home, and when I say fully functioning, I mean it can be used before surgery, after surgery and as well as a long term maintenance program.

Shehla Rooney:

Now the device itself, if you go to the website it looks extremely simple and, to my dismay, you know, many people would describe it oh, it looks like a pool ladder. However, you know what it does is quite complex. Like the horizontal pads of the device, they mimic the hands of a therapist, which then means it allows the individual to do advanced techniques from home that typically would have required me to be present and my hands to be present, and I'm not going to bore the listeners with details. Like you know, being able to do a joint mobilization or an isometric or muscle energy technique from home every day, like that's just, that's fantastic. And then the exercise program that goes along with the device. It was created by a team of physical therapists and we did an extensive detailed research and we based our program on evidence and exercise principles that have already been proven to work. What are the best techniques to increase knee motion? What do you need to do to improve quadriceps strength? You know how do you counteract scar tissue formation after this surgery. So we also understood the neurological component of chronic knee pain and knee replacement recovery and we included that into our protocol as well which disclaimer I did create a video I'm really proud of on YouTube about the neurological component to knee replacement recovery, so it's beneficial to people even before they've ever had the surgery.

Shehla Rooney:

Anybody that's had chronic knee pain, meaning pain in their knees for months or years. I really do encourage you to go to the YouTube to watch it. It's 22 minutes but it, I think, can be like life altering in terms of your perspective of your knee pain. So, yeah, but point is, I used that knowledge in our exercise program. So that's what I mean by a fully functioning program.

Shehla Rooney:

We don't just focus on the physical recovery, focus on the neurological component. We've given you a device that kind of mimics what we do. And the kicker is the exercises are videos. So you'll get a picture of me describing all the videos, what to do, how to do them. There's a timer, kind of like the old timey Jane Fonda videos. So there's no worry, are you doing it right? Are you feeling the right thing? Because I'm telling you the whole time that you're doing it, what you're feeling, why you're doing it, which can create motivation, right. So I try to explain that all throughout the video so they're easy to follow, step-by-step. You just click play. There's not a lot of thought that goes into it, you just have to follow along.

Janet Walker:

So patients are just relaxed in the comfort of their own home. They're watching a video and following along doing the exercises, while they're using the device that you created.

Shehla Rooney:

Yes, and I'll tell you that a lot of patients go home with exercises and we give them a sheet of paper, but what I've learned is they don't even know they're cheating, they don't know they're compensating with their hip or their low back, you know. They don't even realize their knee is not fully straight. So I feel like that was kind of part of why, you know, I thought traditional PT wasn't good enough for the patient is we were sending them home and didn't have a way to hold them accountable to make sure they were doing everything correctly. So to me, our device, as simple as it looks, it causes torques and pressures where you can't cheat. So if you cheat less, that means you're targeting the specific muscles better and you're going to have a better outcome because of that.

Janet Walker:

So it's all about doing the exercises properly, not about high-tech computerized devices high-tech computerized devices, nope, it's literally a step-by-step video.

Shehla Rooney:

You click play and it says, hey, let's start with the warmup. You know, and so, yeah, it guides you through. I think the thing is people don't want to know or don't want to think about what they have to do. If your knee is already hurting, you know, and it's swollen and it's stiff, just have somebody tell me what to do and explain. And if it's hurting you're watching me on the screen say I know this is hurting, you are not hurting your incision right now. It will not split open. I promise you Hearing that while you're doing the exercises. I think there's some real validation to that. I think that people push themselves harder with my videos even though I'm not there and I sometimes I hear people say I worked harder with the go knee exercise program at home than I did in physical therapy because they trust their hands. You know they trust their hands more than they trust the therapist's hands on their knee. So there's a beauty in it, in the ability for the patient to be really aggressive on their own at home while being safe.

Janet Walker:

Nice, and so does it also help patients who aren't quite ready for surgery yet. They're experiencing the issues with osteoarthritis. They're not quite there for getting a replacement surgery. Will this device and protocol help them?

Shehla Rooney:

You know, interestingly, goni was not created for that intent. You know it was created and we have research done that on its effectiveness after knee replacement surgery. But what we found was we started promoting Goni to be used as a prehab program and what we found was that made a huge difference in reducing the person's complaints of pain. People are not ready for surgery. Maybe they have to have dental work done, maybe their daughter is getting married in three months and they just, you know, want to prolong their surgery. There's a reason. Maybe they want to wait until, you know, january because they want to start their deductible all over again.

Shehla Rooney:

I don't know, but to me, yes, goni has now created an opportunity for them to sit there and be able to safely postpone their surgery while still managing their knee pain. And I've also a perk of Goni is if Goni's exercises can reduce your pain, then the person is more motivated to participate in an exercise program. So the feedback I've gotten from individuals is Goni's exercises helped reduce my pain. And because it reduced my pain, I resumed my walking program with my girlfriends, which then helps with controlling weight, it helps with mood, helps with depression, helps with socialization. So again, it wasn't created for that reason, but it has been a really positive byproduct. So, yeah, can it help postpone and if you're not ready, yes.

Janet Walker:

So why should a patient consider using Goni as part of their knee replacement recovery when they're getting physical therapy paid for by their insurance, or maybe they're having a RomTech bike delivered to their home through their insurance? Can Goni be used as part of that routine recovery and why should a patient consider using it?

Shehla Rooney:

Well, the first answer is Goni is a great adjunct to the RomTech bike. Okay, goni is a great adjunct to traditional physical therapy where you go and see them. But my answer is you know why should a patient consider adding Goni as part of their recovery? It is so obvious to me that it is the most advanced home exercise program on the market, and I don't say that lightly. I have talked to hundreds of therapists across the US and had them send me their home exercise programs that they prescribe to patients. I've had healthcare professionals all over the world, like on five continents, send me the exercises that they are prescribing to their knee patients, and what I have seen is none of them include what's called joint mobilizations. None of them include an effective way for the individual to do something called isometrics and muscle energy techniques. And again, I'm not going to bore the audience, but the point is, as healthcare professionals, we know how valuable those techniques are in the recovery process, but prior to go knee, there wasn't a way for the individual to do them at home safely. So to me, that's what Goni's advantage is it's allowing you to do some really advanced exercises that normally require you to go to a PT, but now you can do them at home, and if you can do them every day instead of just twice a week, if you can do them three times a day instead of just during that one time during the PT session, you're going to reap the benefits. This is one of those situations where more is better. Doing more joint mobs is going to feel better. It's not like where I said, if you walk too much, it's going to cause more pain. This is one of those ones where it can actually, the more you do, it can give you more benefits.

Shehla Rooney:

And there's a whole issue with you know again, why should go knee be considered? There's a lot of patients that are scared of therapy. There's a lot of patients that have a fear associated with a therapist putting their hands on their knee. Maybe they had a bad experience with a PT and so it's already. Their brain doesn't like the PT setting, and so it's another opportunity for you to be able to do things and not worry like oh no, if I don't let the PT do what she needs, I'm not going to get the benefits. Well, it puts control back into the individual's hands. That you know what PT is icing on the cake, what you're doing at home with Go Knee is actually the majority of the cake and I think that sometimes that shift is powerful. I think it's really powerful.

Janet Walker:

Is the go knee difficult to set up or assemble? What do patients need to be able to do the exercises and do the program?

Shehla Rooney:

It is so easy to assemble. It is sent to you in a little tall box that weighs less than four pounds. There's four parts that you pop together. We have a video that, a one minute video that says hey, this is how you put it together, if you can't figure it out yourself. Um, so, as for assembly, easy peasy, doesn't require any kind of uh, tools or equipment. Just have to pop it together, kind of like Legos, and ask for the exercises.

Shehla Rooney:

What happens is in that box is a piece of paper that has a link. When you type that link into your iPad, your phone or your computer, it takes you to our exercise videos and then it literally says step one, like have you put your device together? If not, press play, watch this one minute video, we'll show you how to put it together. Step two we're going to show you how to warm up your leg with the Goni device and get you familiar with the basics. Step three so it just it's a link, not not. You don't have to download an app. You don't have to give me a username and a password. I personally hate all that stuff, so I tried to make it as user-friendly as possible, as if I was the customer. You know, I feel like people are giving too much of their information away. I wanted it to be very simple.

Janet Walker:

So they need a computer, a tablet or a phone that has a Wi-Fi connection, because they need to be connected to the internet, right? They can't download these exercises, can they?

Shehla Rooney:

Correct, it's just you need the Wi-Fi to be able to do it. I do have paper documents and, it's interesting, nobody has asked me about printouts or handouts in three years, which I thought everybody would because it's an older population, but now everybody's getting very tech savvy.

Janet Walker:

Well, and I suppose that, as patients do these exercises daily or multiple times a day, they're going to start memorizing the protocol so that they could actually do Goni anywhere, anytime they want to. They just need the device.

Shehla Rooney:

Yes, and I'll tell you that's. Another claim to fame is that you can do your recovery wherever you are. So I love equipment like the RomTech. Another claim to fame is that you know you can do your recovery wherever you are. So you know, I love equipment like the Rom Tech bike. There's also something called an X10 machine, very big. Like I'm big supporters of what they do for the patient, but they're not always portable, right. So you know what, if you're going to your daughter's house for two weeks and then you're going to your son's house for one week, you know you want something that's just easy to do. And I had a lady also who she traveled abroad, to Australia, and she said she took it in her overhead bin because she knew her knee would get stiff on the long flight. So I thought that was really, you know, brought me joy is that, you know, once you got off the plane her knee wasn't so stiff and so swollen because she was able to do what she needed to do. But yeah, you're right, it's lightweight and it's portable.

Janet Walker:

Just so everyone understands, though, goni doesn't take the place of in-office physical therapy.

Shehla Rooney:

Okay. So I'm going to give you two answers, janet. Okay, one answer is Goni is definitely an adjunct, or like a supplement to your physical therapy, and the research actually on Goni is when Goni is combined with traditional physical therapy. That is when the best results occur. Okay, so I want to say that first ideal situation is you go to therapy a couple of times a week and they do hands-on techniques, they do gait training, they do you know swelling and pain management, and then you go home and Goni helps you with gaining that range of motion, the quadricep, you know strength, and helps with pain and swelling and range of motion. That is, to me, the ideal marriage of Goni with traditional physical therapy.

Shehla Rooney:

However, I've had many patients use Goni without traditional physical therapy. However, I've had many patients use Goni without traditional physical therapy and that's because maybe they had. I had one lady who had 20 PT visits per calendar year and she had already used like 16 for a back injury, you know. So she only had four left. So she is someone that was looking for an alternative.

Shehla Rooney:

I have some people that have $100 co-pays for PT and they just cannot afford to go three times a week for six weeks, you know, or someone is an individual. They live alone and they don't have someone that can drive them to and from therapy, and they live in a remote area and can't access home health. So to me, and then I also had a lady who had severe anxiety. She had panic attacks and severe anxiety, and going to therapy caused severe anxiety. She wanted to be able to do whatever she could at home. So Goni can be an alternative to those people that can't easily access or afford physical therapy, and it works really well. Now, again, I prefer for both of them to happen at the same time. I think you need my skills of in-person viewing and assessing in addition to Goni, but it doesn't always work that way.

Janet Walker:

It would be great for surgeons to learn about the Goni, to give this as an alternative to patients who can't get to physical therapy or can't cover the co-pays or have one of the circumstances that you just outlined. I wonder how many doctors actually even know about this program. And that kind of leads into my next question, which is is it important for patients to get an okay from their doctor before starting the Goni program?

Shehla Rooney:

Great question. Obviously, I think it's really important to tell your surgeon anything that you plan on doing before or after surgery. I think you know they're doing the major part of it. They need to know anything you you know any supplements you might be taking, any equipment you bought off Amazon. I think they need to be privy to all of it. However, I will my full disclaimer.

Shehla Rooney:

There are many a surgeon who have never heard of Goni various reasons, the biggest one being it. You know, the research came out at the end of 2019. And so in 2020, when there was a big plan for me to market and educate the surgeons out there, covid hit, so did not get to do any in-person marketing or attending of any trade shows or the things that normally happen to expose a new product on the market. But then the second thing is I was talking to a surgeon and he said with full disclosure Shella, I don't spend my free time or my continuing education time learning about rehabilitation techniques, like that's what the physical therapists are supposed to do. He's like I learn about the latest implant, the latest instrument, the latest navigation, the latest you know. So he's like I learn about the surgery.

Shehla Rooney:

I want to make the surgery better for every patient. But I don't think about how can I make the recovery afterwards better. He goes that's supposed to be for someone else. About how can I make the recovery afterwards better, he goes that's supposed to be for someone else. So just be cautious that if you ask your surgeon about hey, I want to use GoKnee, they might say I've never heard of that. But most surgeons, if you show them a brochure or show them the website or a picture of it, most of them have an engineering or a kinesiology background and they just understand the mechanics of how that would work. So I have not had a surgeon that said absolutely not, don't use that once they've. Actually, I like for you to get the okay from the surgeon, because I always want the surgeon to be able to be to know everything about what you're doing as part of your recovery.

Janet Walker:

Makes perfect sense. Can you tell us anything about the typical difference in recovery for patients who use the Go Knee program versus patients who don't?

Shehla Rooney:

Well, my honest answer is the recovery is faster. Okay, so people who use GoKnee have a faster recovery. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean either their range of motion gets back faster, and that could mean their knee straightened faster. It could mean their knee was bending better. It could mean that they got off the walker faster. It could mean that their quadriceps activated quicker so they were able to lift their leg in and out of a car. Those are the things that patients tell me On average.

Shehla Rooney:

If we compare Goni's range of motion measurements to traditional PT. I mean the research. It's really hard to try to find what is norms for just traditional physical therapy research. It's really hard to try to find what is norms for just traditional physical therapy. But Belmont University in Nashville did a bunch of research and based on what they found, like what Goni users get on average by three weeks is comparable to what traditional physical therapy gets patients in six weeks. So when I make a claim to fame of you know we get people better, faster we just do compared to traditional physical therapy alone.

Shehla Rooney:

So again, what does that mean? Again, they might get their knee straighter faster, but why is that important? Because it means they can get off the walker in the cane. It means they're walking without a limp. You know, our strengthening program allows people's quadriceps to activate quicker, which means you'll be able to go up and down stairs maybe faster than someone who doesn't do those exercises.

Shehla Rooney:

And same with pain. We've included things called like joint mobilizations and muscle energy techniques. Those are clinically been researched for over 30 years. That says they reduce the pain feeling, meaning your brain does something when you do a joint mobilization and it reduces the sensation of pain. Well, we all know if the knee patient had less pain, they'd be able to do more motion, they'd be able to do more function, and so, again, all of that is a win. I just think that knee replacement recovery is painful as it is. I'm not going to pretend it's not. I used to use the word challenging, but every patient that I talked to was like it's not challenging, it hurts. So knee replacement recovery is painful. But if you can reduce the amount of time that the person is in pain and you can get them moving sooner, then I think that's a win. And so that's what I think the difference is between go knee and physical therapy, versus just physical therapy alone.

Janet Walker:

Is there a limit in patient age, size or general health, or will go knee work for any person, in any body type, in any physical condition?

Shehla Rooney:

Well, the good thing is that with knee replacements in general, like it's an elective procedure, so surgeons don't do surgery on high risk patients, right? So just by the nature of the surgery being elective and that surgeons choosing who can like, if someone's really medically complicated, they don't have knee replacement surgery, so that already eliminates a whole I don't things I don't have to worry about. So, as for age, I've had people as young as 32 to 89 for knee replacements. I've had someone who was like I think she told me she was four foot two. I've had someone who was six foot six. Use it because the device is adjustable. I've had patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Because the device is adjustable, I've had patients with rheumatoid arthritis, shoulder replacements, hip replacements, back surgeries, diabetics, neuropathy. So I mean there are a few cases where Goni is not going to help you, but for the most part, the majority of the time, it can work with the individual to result in what needs to happen.

Janet Walker:

Will insurance pay for the GoKnee program after knee replacement surgery or even before knee replacement surgery?

Shehla Rooney:

Unfortunately it is not an insurance approved product, it is a cash pay product only and I'm not going to again bore the listeners for the reasons, but it's a very expensive and timely process to get insurance coverage and honestly, I knew it was helping individuals, like five years ago when we were using it on individuals, and I didn't want to wait three or four years because once you start that process you know you can't just all of a sudden introduce it to the public. And plus, covid kind of made that decision for me, meaning because of COVID, research projects were stalled, everything was stalled, everything with Medicare was stalled. So COVID made me go. Hmm, patients are hurting, their surgeries are canceled, they can't go to PT. Oh, my goodness, I have a solution. So I was like I'm going to go straight to the consumer and then the response was so phenomenal I have never looked back. So people are willing to pay for something that's going to make their pain less, their recovery faster, prepare better for a surgery, and so I just didn't go the insurance route.

Shehla Rooney:

Also, side note, individuals are not always compliant with their exercise program. I'm just going to say, as a PT, I know this. But when you pay for something and you hand over money for something that you chose to purchase. I don't have a compliance issue. 100% of people who purchase Goni use Goni, but that's because they have skin in the game.

Janet Walker:

Does Goni have a warranty?

Shehla Rooney:

You know we implemented a 30-day return policy and I did that because you know even me as an Amazon purchaser or I purchase things online I like knowing as a buyer, I have the opportunity to return something. So I added that in just from a business standpoint. But what I have learned is if anybody uses the product after purchasing, they see the value, they feel the difference in their need. But yes, I do offer that just for those that are kind of skeptical about how can this product that looks like this help me.

Janet Walker:

I do offer that and because of the way it's designed, there's really no issue with it potentially breaking, with parts not working, anything like that.

Shehla Rooney:

No, and again, it's not a great business model when you create a product that can last for your next knee and maybe another knee surgery. It is not something that's going to expire and be like, oh, in six months from now it's not working. Well, you know, it is built to last. Again, not a great business model, but a great clinical model where you know you buy it once and it's a full service knee program for both your knees forever.

Janet Walker:

What can people expect from a customer service standpoint?

Shehla Rooney:

Well, I'll be honest, I miss so much the one-on-one contact with my patients ever since I started this Goni thing, so it is definitely my favorite part of my job. I love interacting with individuals who have purchased a Goni. Anyone who reaches out through the website or calls the number you know will get to speak to me and we will talk shop about your knee and your goals. I have started creating a multiple touch points on the knee journey to give people the opportunity, you know, to get involved with me. So I, when they buy it, I kind of send them how to use the device before they have surgery. I'll reach out a week, a month, before surgery and tell them things they can do with their go knee. A week before surgery I'll send out a checklist, you know. A week after surgery I'm going to send them like a range of motion guide to kind of give the motivation to work towards things. And then again at two weeks, four weeks, eight weeks, I really I mean again from months before surgery to months after surgery, you're going to get communications from me that are relevant and pertinent and, um, uh, I think, key to a successful recovery and people can use or interact with me as much or as little as they want. So if they just want to read the emails and apply the information, they can, if they have questions, they can reach out. I always, you know, give a phone number and an email at the bottom of every email to say, hey, if you've got questions or you're struggling or you're not meeting these benchmarks, that I think you should then reach out to me and I'll help you.

Shehla Rooney:

I think there is some confusion with people like they have their own PT, so why would they reach out to Shella at GoKnee? But again, I feel like it's. You know, we're both assets in your team. I'm helping you with a home exercise program, they're helping you with other things. I don't see it as conflicting. I see it as we're all on your team to get you better and I have a skill set that you know you've now paid for. You should use it when you have a knee problem. I am the person you want to have on speed dial, like I've seen it all. So but yeah, customer service, I would say, is probably my. If you go to the reviews on GoKnee, it's really never about the device, it's about our customer service and I'm really proud of that.

Janet Walker:

Wow, that's amazing and actually, you know, rare these days. So really, with GoKnee they're not just getting a device, they're not just getting a device plus follow along videos. It really is a complete recovery program with someone who has probably more experience in knee recovery than just about anyone else out there. So what an amazing value.

Shehla Rooney:

I'm glad you said that because I will tell you that if you go have knee replacement surgery, you just assume that physical therapists know everything about knee replacement. But you know, surgeons are getting more specialized. There are now hip and knee surgeons. Right, they just do hips and knees. The thing is there's not physical therapists that just do hips and knees. We're generalists. We see a variety of ankles and shoulders and neck and back and we see a wide variety of ages Go Knees. Claim to fame is we are only therapists that specialize in everything knee-related for the older adult and I just think that that's a huge advantage because I've seen it all Every single day. Every single patient that I talk to is somewhere on the spectrum of knee replacement and it provides me information.

Janet Walker:

How does someone go about getting the GoKnee device and program?

Shehla Rooney:

You just go to our website, which is wwwthegoneecom, which is T-H-E-G-O-K-N-E-Ecom. There's a buy now button. There's also a ton of information on there, what you need to know before surgery. How can you pick a surgeon? You know, how do you know if you have knee osteoarthritis? I've created a really vast library of everything knee related that I'm proud of, so go on there. But I also for your listeners, Janet. I would love for them to enter in at the checkout. There's a place for a coupon code. If you put in GO100, so G-O, and then the number 100, it'll get you $100 off your GoKnee.

Janet Walker:

Oh, thank you for doing that for our listeners.

Shehla Rooney:

I would love that.

Janet Walker:

Well, shella, thank you so much for being with us again and thank you for your expertise and developing a program that can help patients recover faster and better from knee replacement surgery. Listeners, you can connect with Shella at thegoneecom that's wwwthegoneecom. And thank you so much everyone for listening to the Healthy Cells Healthy you podcast with me, your host, janet Walker. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, google Podcasts, iheartradio, spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and tell your friends. We'll help you find solutions and together we'll build healthy cells and a healthy you.

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