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Welcome to America's Healthiest City on Channel RVA. I'm your host, Will Melton, and today I have Vincent Vu, the founder of Kennis AI. We're going to talk about some really amazing technology that helps people with balance and maintaining that and predicting falls and lots of things that I don't even know about yet. So we're going to get into it. But before we do, if you're joining us for the very first time, please visit America's HealthiestCity.com to check out our ideas board, a place where you can leave ideas small and large that can help us, the entire region, become the healthiest region in America by 2033. It's a community effort, and it takes all of us working together to make that happen. So if you represent a business, a nonprofit, an academic institution, or a government agency that wants to participate in this, you can learn about what it takes to become an ambassador. It's totally free and will help to tell the story of how you're impacting the growth and change in this region that's making us healthier. And that is all of the social determinants that prevent us from getting there. I can tell you in the three years since we've started this program, we have seen progress and we're super excited about that. So without further ado, Vincent, thanks for coming in.

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Well, thank you, Will. Thank you so much for having me here today and be a Richmonder. It's exciting in the what we do with Kindness AI and how that story falls into the, you know, how can we help to contribute to make Richmond the next the next healthest city? So I'm really excited and honored to be here.

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Yeah. Well, you and I have gotten to know each other a little bit through uh AI Ready R VA, and I'm looking forward to getting to know you better in this context. We've also uh met through uh I'm gonna get this wrong, but Synergy Health Hub, is that right? That's correct, yeah. Um and so um and David Ambrose is uh good good guy over there. We've had on the program a couple of times, him and his

Vincent’s Refugee Journey To Richmond

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wife. So um what I ask everybody when we start this program is I I don't think you're from Richmond, I'm gonna take a wild guess.

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Correct. So you're correct. So I originally from Vietnam. I um before I immigrate to US, uh, which is 1998, um, I spent six years in reference due camp and then immigrated to the US 1998, spent my first year in Sioux, Iowa, and then 99 and moved to Richmond. So um then lived here for over 20 plus years. And this is home for me and my family and my kids here. So this this this Fritz RVA has always home for me.

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So what was it in 1999 that brought you here in the first place?

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Well, you know, my family was, you know, you know, uh originally from Vietnam after the war. Um, you know, my mom always wanted to look for a better opportunity for us in terms of you know growth and education. So we uh we basically escaped in a little in the middle of the night on a little fishing boat. Um we have the boat people, uh 165 of us. I was roughly seven at the time my brother was three and half, and here we are, spending days and at sea, and next thing we know, we're in up in the refugee camp. Spent about six years there. Um and I think that that that story itself brought me back to how I actually started kinest. You know, there's a story behind that. My sixth year in the refugee camp, you know, we didn't have a lot, spent most of my time playing soccer barefoot. And and then, and so yes, we the the really objective for us to move and immigrate to US is to find that opportunity. We moved to Sioux A because my my mom has a brother who also ended up in refugee camp. He's uh basically have a sponsorship in Sioux City, Iowa. That's why we first moved there and for the first couple months and uh until '99, we my mom knows somebody here, so we ended up moved to Richmond.

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Well, and I suspect, I mean, she was you said she was always looking for a better place. Richmond, uh better place than Sioux City.

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Oh, absolutely. I remember for one thing I remember uh going from a tropical climate and I was April 10, 1998, we arrived in this very small airport in in Sioux City, Iowa, and that was a big shop for me. It was cold. And I remember if if I have something I remember Sioux Cities, Sioux is a very small town. Um Iowa, and I remember my first job in the U.S., um, this is summer 1998. Um basically I worked a job through a high school program, I work at at the cornfield. So I was picking the little tass of the corn. That's my first job uh in in Suzie, Iowa. And still remember waiting for the bus would brew.

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So the wet enrichment, one thing, you know, when I moved in 99, it's a completely much better experience than what I had in um in in in Suzie, Iowa.

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I used to live in Michigan and and I would tell people, you can always tell the difference. You can't tell the difference between 32 degrees and zero degrees unless it's windy. If it's windy, you always know uh it's cold outside. So I used to I used to live in the middle of nowhere, so surrounded by cornfields. But there's no corn in the wintertime, so you could see the bus driving down the road, the the light flashing on top. So I would stay inside until I saw the bus driving and then I go outside. Um all right, so Richmond, you've been here for uh 27

What He Loves About Richmond

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years. That's correct. Um you've seen a lot happen. What do you love most about Richmond?

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Well, what I'm loving most about Richmond, of course, I think I think the uh what I'm seeing more of the diversity that's happening in Richmond over the years. I see are there are pockets of Richmond. You know, I think, you know, I I'm always appreciate in terms of a lot of outdoor activity. You know, something I take my kids a lot down the James uh buttermill trail. Um that's something I love the outdoor space. I love that the city had more, I think the artistic side of it. You know, I I came up a design background, so I I enjoyed it. One thing I love the mural around Richmond.

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That's something that very unique that I cannot find anywhere. The only thing I can relate to that is Scat. That's where I went to school. Uh down Savannah Joy is an art design school. But when I come back to Richmond uh and I drive around different districts, you know, whether the fan, whether that, you know, in the West End, mainly the fan, I see a lot of the beautiful mural that that remind me at home.

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Well, I'm glad you said that. I'm gonna give a little plug for channel RVA because on channel RVA is a thing called RVA art. And it is um it's a screensaver that you can look at all the murals, not all of them, but we're collecting more. And it just kind of plays some music in the background, it tells you the mural artist, and you know, a little bit about the background. Um so check that out, RVA art. Fantastic. Yeah, the murals are are definitely something that uh I mean, even our our outro of this show is me walking in front of a mural a couple of blocks down the street. Yeah. So um, yeah, uh Richmond's been uh the diversity. That's what I wanted to ask about. So um I I know that Northern Virginia has a a pretty sizable Vietnam Vietnamese population. Has that kind of come down in here into Richmond? Is there a decent Vietnamese population here in Richmond? I see so over the year.

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I I think so. I mean the way we look at it by all different grocery stores and more restaurants. And I think we do see that, not just the Vietnamese population. I'm seeing more, you know, you look at it, we have more Korean stores now these days, we have more different ethnicity. So I'm seeing that as far as the the diversity in terms of the the age within the Asian community, I'm seeing that growing over the year. And um so and also, you know, I think a lot of that had to do with the school. If you see you, you have a very diverse school at the school here. So I'm seeing that. So so the business can actually go where the the students are. So so that's what I'm seeing. Um, but I think compared to North Virginia, of course, it is not the same, it's not an apple to apple comparison. But over the year I do see that happening.

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What's your favorite place to eat

Food Spots And Local Culture

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restaurant?

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Oh, wow. Well, there's a couple of places. I like, you know, you know, Mekong. Mekong has been around for almost 30 years. Mekong serves uh, you have one of the best beer uh restaurants in town, and you get some really good Vietnamese food. So I think Mekong and I was there a couple days ago watching the soccer game. So it's this great place. Uh for me, Mekong is is it when it comes to Vietnamese food, do you think it's it's authentic? No, it's not. But it's to me, it's an institution. It's a local. Vietnamese, it's been around for 30 years. And you walk in the bar, you can see that this thing had looked the same for the last 30 years. Haven't changed. You have a lot of. So that is the something that if if somebody comes out of town and then if I wanted to show some Richmond, that's a bar that, you know, that's a restaurant I would take them to. So some really good beer, local beer, and then enjoy some very um good Vietnamese food.

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Well, thanks for sharing. I I don't normally ask that question, but we all have to eat. And uh Anna, I'm I'm always uh trying to figure out where I need to go. So uh we're gonna take a quick break, but when we come back, we'll talk more about Kenneth's AI and the foundation of that and where you've been. If you want to own the internet in your domain on search and in AI search, you need the team that wrote the playbook on how to land on top. At Exponent21, we help businesses dominate search rankings, drive traffic, and convert visitors into loyal customers. In the world of AI, it pays to be number one. You are number one. Make sure the world knows it. Go to exponent21.com and get a free multi-page SEO report when you mention America's healthiest city. Welcome

Why He Started A Barefoot Shoe

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back to America's Healthiest City, a channel RVA production. Uh, please subscribe to channelrva.com to see all of our episodes and everything else that we're making over there. Uh today I have Vincent Vu, the founder of Kenneth AI here in the studio, and uh we're talking about balance and health and technology that uh can help with both of those things. Um Vincent, I won't claim to know a lot about um uh Kennis and Kennis AI. So um take us back, you said 10 years uh when you founded this company. Uh you mentioned a story about playing soccer uh as a boy with uh with no shoes on. Uh how does that tie together?

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Yeah, you know, going back to I I never thought that, you know, the sixth year that I spend in refugee camp, really the catalyst to how I ended up starting a barefoot company. Uh this is going back to 2016. And then three years ago we pivot to a a movement health company. It's called Kenness AI. So let's take back a little bit. I'll take you back to 2016. You know, my background is an architect. So I um I'm a trained architect. So during that time I was working for a company. As and and as a director, my job, I would travel a lot. And then, you know, my hell would really deteriorate. This is my early 30s. And I at one day I was in the my um meeting, a conference room, and I look around my colleague at the at the same executive position. They are in the mid-50. And I look at these folks and I look at myself, people, it's just miserable, hell deteriorating. Um, and I look at my son, ask a question, do I want to do I see myself like that in the next 15 years of my life? And the answer is no. So I started to take care of my health. And and one of the things I started to do is start running. And when I say running, I never run before in my life. I hate running, to be honest with you. But I do it for health. Uh, because I was um uh a young father as well. So I think it's my responsibility to take care of my health, so I can take care of my take care of my family. So I got into running and started to do running about two miles indoor and then a couple of weeks of running, I enjoy myself. And the first thing I need to do is So two weeks. Yeah, two weeks. Okay. And and and and I I hurt myself and I got frustrated, and I I asked myself, man, I used to be to run outdoor, you know, barefoot, kick the soccer around. Here I am. I have uh I just spent 160 bucks buying a pair of, you know, running shoes. That's supposed to be good for me, and here I am, I I couldn't run anymore. So I try, you know, try a different shoe and and and nothing worked. Is the problem keep getting worse? I got to the point, I couldn't run anymore. And that's where I I, you know, I went to just just like everybody, I started Google thing away, started to understand because that I know the only option for me is to go see a podiatrist, and I didn't want to go spend, spend, you know, up to you know, six or seven hundred dollars a pair of authority. I'm too young. I don't want to do that. So the first thing, so I do a lot of resources, and and during that time, because I couldn't run anymore, so I spent a lot of time like went down the rabbit holes, understanding foot anatomy, biomechanics, uh, run and knee problem, why all the problems having. And one day, one of my one of my mentors gave me a book called Born to Run. So if you know, if you're a running community, you probably know this book. So Born to Run is about uh this author called Chris McDougall. Uh his basic experience running that I have, and then he went to Mexico and he saw these people in the they call the Talmajara people, these are indigenous Indian people in Mexico, and where they can run with basic a thin sandal that made out basically the few pieces of ladder strap they cut out, and then they cut out, they take an old tie, a car tie, and they cut out, and that's it. There's no cushion, no support, no carbon plate, none of that. But they were able to run for 50 or plus mile without any injury. So so when I read that book and I start to understand the sign behind that, it's makes sense. The human body, you look at over like two million evolution, we were able to adapt over time. You know, the you look at the best running from Kenya, these guys run barefoot. But then when when you look at me and in and I ask myself, I used to be to do this, so what went wrong there? So one thing I learned over the year that because the way the traditional shoe design is confine the foot natural movement, it takes away from the foot natural body mechanic. We have art support over time. What we are doing is we are it we are intentionally make the foot become weaker. When it becomes weaker, it's prone to injure. And what for me was because I wear shoe, I was doing a lot of hill strike. Repetitive hill strike, and I'm pounding that every single day. And you do, if you know, you know, for me, why do I know this? Because there's a lot of research. Every time you heel strike, that three time uh three time your body weight, uh, when you hit the ground, that energy has to come back somehow. Okay? And that's going to your my heel, that's going to my knee, that's going to my back. So that I do that every single day, and that's why I enjoy myself. But you look at the the the way the human body designed, we run with a midfoot landing. When we land on midfoot, we activate the arch, the arch acting as a shock absorb mechanism. The best way can I can explain that, imagine you're driving a car, you have all these suspension, they are designed to absorb all that shock. Imagine you remove all that. How uncomfortable that is to be driving the car. So, next thing, so that's my story. And after I read the book and do a lot of research and talk to a lot of podiatrists, and then I decide that, and you know what, I'm not, I'm gonna do something about it. I want to fix this problem. And go back to 2016. It happened to be the same time I decided to go back to get my MBA. Uh, because I want to, you know, I want to get into the leadership so that and I remember one of the class, well, first class was design thinking. And the beginning is what the problem I was trying to solve, and then I apply my own problem, apply design thinking to solve that problem. And next thing I know, I end up start a shoe company. So Kindness started in 2018. The idea inception started in 2016, we launched our first products as a shoe company. And the then the premise behind that, we make shoes that promote natural foot movement. We believe back to the basic, allowing the foot to function naturally. Uh, we have three products and two products get medical approval from the American podiatrist association. So from the from the beginning now, looking back, uh the the premise is only about how it's not more, it's it how can we help you to use the body naturally? And we wasn't compete on the design. We were we weren't saying that. Let's look at the science, the sign movement. We need to have a better understanding of that. So that's what we did. That's what really the inception of Kenneth Barefoot. And I spent the last couple of years before pivotal Kenneth's AI, we were selling shoes across the country. Well, do a lot of Spartan race. And one thing I did to prove the point that we can regain the NAFO full strength naturally. 2022, I ran my first marathon. After I recovered from injury, after restraining my foot health again, uh, I ran a barefoot marathon in Austin, Texas. It took me six and a half hours, and we're raising money for the Afghan refugee because, you know, to me, that is that's something that attached with me, that has a very very something very sentimental value to me. And so that's the story. And now how did we pivot into the kidney's AI? So

The Real Cost Of Falls

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three years ago, uh, from the business perspective, you know, shoe business is great business. We were selling, we're making product, but um, one, we keep getting a lot of email from a customer, especially people in the over 50. So uh they keep asking because we because kidnapped we're telling us balance and and and how we we saw the foothell naturally. So we have a lot of these natural questions, people asking us, hey, do you have any shoe that helped my mom? My mom's 65, she has some balance issue. So I'm getting a lot of questions. And one day at lunch, I decide, you know what, let me try to dig this in a little bit to see why we keep getting this request. And then I look at some study, I came across some study from CDC. What I have learned is fall is the leading cost of death for people over 65 in this country. We spend an $80 billion a year. For falls. For fall. Now 40,000 deaths. 40,000 deaths, not taken into considerable people's injury. 95% of people who are over 65 fall and up with hip fracture. So if you when you go out, you talk to anybody, I'm pretty sure for the most part, you know either somebody directly in their family or they know another friend, family who have experienced the fall. And then the question becomes, well, we have all the technology with us right now. You have wearable, you have sensor. Why this problem haven't been solved? And you look at a solution in the market, a lot of it's still very manual. A lot of manual. Fall, we treat fall as something that we have to accept as an old age. But the question becomes, for detection technology been around for 30 years, you fall, you press something, somebody comes to save you. But to me, that's very reactive because somebody potentially dying the next couple of months. Someone could be somebody father, could be somebody grandma that there. You know, we all get that point somehow. So the question becomes, can we instead of detecting it? What happened if we can predict that? You know, we have all the computing power, and you know, three years ago, that's where AI become mainstream. And say, this is an opportunity. Because what AI ended up to do is be able to ingest a large amount of data and then be able to predict something. That's what AI really, you break down the core of it. And so we decide to pivot the business and we decide to say, okay, we're gonna pause on the shoe business, but what we'll carry over the the science, the the uh everything we know about human movement. We carry that now that's too together. So we then up apply funding through a VIFSI, so we we receive 75k. Uh, and that's what

Building The Science And Team

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we did. So I reached out to um to uh one of my mentors, unfortunately he passed away, um, the guy named Stephen Morrison, uh Dr. Stephen Morrison, he's a leading fall prevention expert. Now, I have zero background in this industry, I have zero background in building technology, I have zero background in sensor, but what I know is we have a problem to solve. So I reached out to the right people. So I met with him, I I went out and visited him, that's ODU, um, the rehab lab, and he spent over 20 plus years helping people with fall prevention. I asked Steve, see, you know, it has an opportunity. And he said, I don't see any reason why we do that. So so really having Steve on board gave me the confidence. And then Steve focused on the sign behind that. And then I need somebody from the the biomedical and engineering. So we reached out, we did a capstone project with VCO Biomedical Engineering. We have some students, and we ended up applying the same design thinking. We ended up spending a lot of time uh um doing the customer discovery at assisted living community uh around Richmond.

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That's awesome.

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And then the next thing I need somebody from the science pushback. I'm not an AI engineer. I I don't know anything. I know, I know the business, I know the logic, how it works, but then I reach out to um to another professor, uh the chair of the computer science uh uh Joe Mason. So I got all I'm pulling all the pieces together. And the next thing we know we built the smart insole, we apply for uh, we also wrote a grant. I wrote the first grant in my life with some support, one, with some other folk helping me, but uh through NIH. And the the premise is if we can build a smart insole, which is packed with all the sensor. So if you take a look at the uh the rehab lab, which usually uh probably cost anywhere $500 up to a million dollars worth of equipment, reside a lot of that lab reside within the university context, then the average person don't have access to that. So the question becomes if you look at all these highly specialized equipment, can we shrink it down to an INSO? And that's what we did. We build the pressure mapping, you build a sensor, and we build a prototype and we prove it is work. Um so that's what we did. So we pivot company, we build smart insole. The idea of the smart insole will contact what we call continued movement monitoring. If you look in a market web for spay, you have GCM, continued glucose monitoring. So the idea for a CMM, which you continue uh movement monitoring, that we can collect data every single step, and then we identify the abnormality and we can we can predict if somebody six weeks or eight weeks away, and then when we make the prediction, we're gonna put an early intervention. So what's the premise behind that? And we build a prototype, it's working, but throughout that process, we learn a couple of things. We learn that in order for this to work, we there's some technical challenges. Of course, the battery, what happened to sensor break, you know, how they're gonna charge it. So there's a lot of the there's a lot of uh technical challenges. Make it um is not commercially viable. Yeah, we can make it in a lab environment, but it will cost about from beside that the economic of it, it's gonna cost about $2,000 for these. So that means we're not solving the bigger problem. You know, I'm if I'm gonna solve a problem, I want to show off a Mary. Mary's living in the middle of Louisa County, see 65 C forest. So the question, how can't we do a technology that we can deliver deliver care for her? Selling her a $2,000 pair of insurance is not going to solve the problem. Is is inaccessible.

Pivot From Insoles To Camera AI

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So we what we learned from that, the limitation of the smart, and so we took to say, what what can't we do leverag something that people already have? The question becomes the smartphone, the camera based. So we move from a sensor based technology. Technology expensive to produce, expensive, and all other technical challenges we have to deal with. Then we pivot and we move to computer vision. And that's where we develop uh the product uh that using the the smartphone camera. And then and then we and then we spend two and a half to two and a half years developing the technology. We work with all the local clinics. Uh all the data we collect is direct from the clinic. Uh we finished a six-month clinical pilot, and we did that with uh both in Asia and also in in the US as well. In the US, we work with uh we did the clinical pilot with uh partner MD. And and what we learned over this over the six-minute period, based on the initial assessment, a balance assessment, somebody, we give them a balance score and then we give them exercises. That's another thing that we do because we believe given analytics is only part of the sort of the equation. How can I have these marriage from from not falling is another piece that we have to solve. So we have a team of uh doctors on our team, we have four doctors right now. We design these, what we call physician design exercise program that the patient has access to. The patient can do the exercise in the clinic, the patient can do the exercise at home, and then we can measure that. So what we're looking for, we track a behavior change and improvement over time. So that is how we we start from a shoe business to a smart insole sensor base and then to a camera base where we are today. That's fascinating.

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I mean it's just really shows the the level of uh detail that you put in your design thinking process. So I appreciate that. I think um not everybody learns about design thinking in their work. Um and and you know, I've learned about it in the context of of community building and and how that happens in leadership. So um it's very fascinating to kind of hear that evolution. And um, you know, normally, you know, we're gonna take a break here in a minute, uh, because that's all that was a long story. But um normally we talk a lot about the future of Richmond in this last segment. But I think what we're gonna do is have you show us what the future of Richmond looks like uh because you're gonna demo your technology. So um we're gonna get mic'd up here in a minute and we'll get the cameras trained on your technology and we're gonna show our viewers what you're uh what you've arrived at.

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Yeah, sure. I'm excited. I'm excited, future excited for Richmond, and we're proud to be a Richmond-based company.

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Live Demo Of Balance Test

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We have your account created already, so I'm gonna start the test. We're gonna do two tests. The first test is called the balance test, and we'll do the second test mobility test. This is either quick balance checks, so we'll do this single leg, we'll do left foot and right foot. We'll look at your ankle, we'll look at your pelvis, you'll look at your trunk, so you are good there. Activate the camera. All right, I want you to walk into that until you turn green, and I want you to follow the instruction. Okay, fantastic. We'll set up. The beauty is we will compare your A script so you know where you are within your A shroop. That's good, you're looking good. So we're gonna process that. We're gonna do the other legs, repeat the same process again. All right. Technology is only one part of the solution. It has to work in a clinical workflow. So our test fit within five minutes in the clinical workflow. So we we we intentionally design that. Everything we design, the UX, you eyes, everything have to make sure it works within that. What we are doing to say we analyze your angle, your pelvis, your trunk, your body. So that's why this test is a ghost and a test for checks balance. Okay, fantastic. You're done. Let's come back. Let's review your score. Come come up here, we'll

Scores Breakdown And What They Mean

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review your score. The first number is your balance score. You coming out at 70 out of 100. So list travel is low. Okay, that's the first thing. What I want you to do is you're in a 44 to 49 H group. Your H group norm range is 49 seconds. You knock down 60 seconds, it's fantastic. So that's the first number we're looking at. Now, how do I write this? That's this number. So the 100 is made of five components. Each component is about 20, 20, 20 points. You can get. Of course, your whole time you get 20, 20 out of 20, which is fantastic because again, 49, you did 60 seconds. The trunk setting it, okay. There's some midsection, there's some movement activity. We can talk about that. Uh, whole body stability, uh, you can look at left foot and the right foot. You see, your left foot is uh coming out 60, your right foot is coming out 80. And of course, in that average, I have to be 70. One thing I want to look at pelvis control. So pelvic control and ankle, ankle stability. Let's take let's take a look at your pelvis. So this is your pelvis. So basically, what you want to do, we want to be in that green. That's considered normal range of your pelvis movement. When your ankle sway instability, it can also impact your pelvis. That's what we see the correlation. To me, I find it's the most important thing here. Let's take a look. This is your ankle. So that plot we call your ankle plot is angle stability. So every second, the way we do, we capture it every second, we take two photos and we'll plot that on the grass. So you like to stay within that green zone. The first 30 seconds, the remaining circuit, you can see you can start to some instability. You can see that to go outside that green zone right there. The next step with our platform where we can focus your ankle and pelvis, your trunk. These are our guided exercise on our platform.

Prescribed Exercises And Home App

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Oh wow. That we can so we know we know your score, so that's automatically recommend to exercise for you. These are our position design exercise.

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The problem is really just if we can't correct our balance and catch it again. So we're gonna practice disturbing our balance a little bit while we're walking, so we can practice catching our balance.

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What we building a the clinic and home, the integration between clinic and home. So what we are gonna do is if you can take out your phone, you can download the app, basically you go home, you can see the score, you can also the exercise can be prescribed for you, and you can do the exercise home. So we're bridging between clinic and home environment. And every time you do exercise home, you can provide feedback that also go back to clinic. Clinic can make edits your exercise, then go back to you. Should I do this? Yeah, yeah, try it. So this is our beta app that we just loan on App Store that you can download. And then that's so cool. And then this will connect your portal.

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And I can do this with my phone, this whole program with my phone.

SPEAKER_02 28:26

That's correct. So this is the clinic version, and we have the home. This is great. This is the coolest thing I've seen. So for us, our mission as a company how can we demonstrate access to movement now? Everything you expect, you can do the same thing at home. Test is only the input layer, that's only the beginning. We are bringing clinicians to our platform. So in the future of that, you can do telehelp at any given time, Mary at home. So you can book to a kidney's care through our app that you can talk to a physical therapist. So we bring physical therapist and physician to our platform. So we build the infrastructure that enable physicians to deliver better care to the patient. So the test is only the input layer to our technology. Anybody at any, it doesn't matter where you are, you can download our app you have. We give you the first test free.

SPEAKER_03 29:09

I'm very curious about the growth of this because this is very developed and I'm I'm very impressed. This is Yeah. Well, thank you. Before

Richmond Guest Pick And Closing

SPEAKER_03 29:15

we go, I have one question, and you might not be prepared for this, but I'm gonna throw it at you anyway. Who is somebody in Richmond that we should bring onto the show to tell their story of how they're making the region a healthier place?

SPEAKER_02 29:25

I will have Anna from Austerwell. So Anna I see a physician, she focused on woman health, bone health. Why woman over 40? Because the woman body changed a lot out the previous at bone health. There's not a lot enough talk about woman helm. I think I think I think she'd be a great person to come on the show to share.

SPEAKER_03 29:42

Well, I can't wait to have her on. I'm gonna make sure that we get this clip to her so she knows that you recommended it. You have been watching to uh America's Healthiest City on Channel RVA. Today we had Vincent Food from Kenneth AI. Such an exciting program. This is our longest program that we've ever done, uh, and and I think it was totally worth it. So um please check out America's healthhiestcity.com, subscribe over at channelrva.com, and uh come along and uh watch our next episode, which will be coming out here very soon.