When a surgeon-developer became the patient.

Dr. Adam Perler spent his career building tools to help clinicians reach the right diagnosis faster. Then a misread MRI, interpreted against his prior history, nearly missed a ruptured disc at L3. OrthoPoP’s Regional Pain Module captured the symptom pattern — anterior thigh, medial knee, and quad weakness — that pointed exactly where the problem was. A targeted overread found it. He recovered. Without that structured input, the damage from a delayed diagnosis could have become permanent. The experience fortified the vision of OrthoPoP’s surgeon-design team: earlier diagnosis leads to better outcomes. Dr. Perler is proof of that.