The decision between orthopedic consultation and rehabilitation depends on injury factors like swelling and pain.

“The story, the incident, what it looks like. Like if we're talking knee, if you know their soccer player, they twisted it really weird yesterday, it's all swollen on the joint line, I'm more worried about the joint. If conversely, if it's a runner where it's been kind of off and on for a long time, no acute incident, no joint line swelling, the pain is kind of vague, those are two very different presentations. So, one's going to be more like ortho consult, one's going to be like, let's let's tinker around as a rehab pro and see what we can do, right?”