Avior’s founders, Ryan and Joe, are no strangers to the difficulties faced by patients during recovery. As collegiate wrestlers, both suffered season ending shoulder injuries that required a total of over 400 hours of physical therapy. Unfortunately, these injuries became career ending after unsuccessful recoveries that left Ryan and Joe having suffered labrum tears 5 separate times between them.

Ryan and Joe realized that as physical therapy patients they had failed to understand the value in or properly engage with their care. Their experience is shared by 70% of physical therapy patients and highlights a major problem in physical therapy: lack of transparency in care leads to disengaged patients, high dropout rates, and poor outcomes

As patients ourselves, we realize that what patients need is simply a way to stay actively involved in their own care. We need a way to see where we are going, what we are doing to get there, and why specific activities are important. Yet, currently there is no effective method for therapists to provide this information to their patients. This realization sparked the formation of Avior.