An athlete who cannot be seen today is an athlete at another clinic tomorrow.
Sports medicine competes on access and on evidence. Same-day assessment wins the patient; a defensible return-to-play decision keeps the referrer, the club and the insurer.
Same-day access and full diaries are the same problem.
The clinic is full because it is good, and being full means the acute ankle on a Friday afternoon goes elsewhere. Holding slots open wastes capacity; not holding them loses the patient permanently.
On the other side, return-to-play decisions rest on testing — isokinetic, hop battery, force plate — performed on shared equipment that is booked as an afterthought, and recorded in a spreadsheet the physician never sees.
- —No same-day capacity without wasting held slots
- —Testing equipment booked separately from the session, or not at all
- —Return-to-play criteria applied inconsistently
- —Club, insurer and referrer all wanting different reports
Three areas of the platform carry this.
The rest of the product is present and dormant. These three are the reason you would move.
Dynamic acute-access reserve
A reserve of same-day capacity sized from historical acute demand per weekday, released automatically as the cut-off passes so nothing is wasted holding a slot that will not be used.
Testing as a bookable resource
Force plate, isokinetic dynamometer and gym bays are scheduled with the session, with test protocols attached so the data lands in the athlete's record and not on a clipboard.
Return-to-play criteria tracking
Criteria-based progression with limb symmetry index, psychological readiness and load tolerance tracked against phase, plus a one-page clearance report generated for the referrer, club or insurer.
What your tenant hierarchy looks like.
Athletes belong to squads and to insurers at the same time; both need a report and neither should see the other's.
Numbers, with the assumptions attached.
Modelled on a four-site sports medicine group with a single shared performance lab and 22% of demand arriving as acute same-day requests.
- Reserve sized from demand
- Lab booked with the session
- Criteria tracked per phase
- Clearance report generated
These are modelled figures, not a named customer result. Every input is stated so you can substitute your own; where a range is meaningful we publish the sensitivity rather than a single confident number.
Bring one week of real demand to a demo and we will rerun the model live on your data.
See what it costs →The questions this room always asks.
From your own history: acute arrivals per weekday and hour over the trailing quarter, with a confidence band. You set the release cut-off; the planner backfills from the waitlist automatically.
You may be more than one of these.
Size your acute reserve on real demand.
One quarter of arrival times is enough to model what same-day access would actually cost you.