Professor Belinda Beck

Maybe the kitchen bench would be okay, but there's more hard corners in the kitchen.

So the back of the couch is the ideal sort of setting or something else that is high enough for you to be able to grab it quickly and soft enough if you hit it that you're not going to hurt yourself.

Well, I think you probably know the answer to that one.

No one from the government's ever going to reach out.

And there's all sorts of reasons for that.

You know, we are quite small.

And as I say, I don't necessarily market the program or go out.

Yeah, that's right.

I just so happen, this wasn't intentional, but I am wearing my Stop Fractured t-shirt today.

And

Stop Fracture is a funded study.

It is funded through the MRFF, which is a big government funding body.

And the Stop Fracture study is specifically designed to make doctors more aware of O'Neill and understand the process of referring and then getting people to actually be referred to O'Neill providers and then tracking them and seeing if it will make a difference to their risk of fracture.

So

I'm trying to chip away from that angle, trying to get the word out to doctors, but you're quite right.

We are at the bottom of the mountain and there's a long way to go.

We're hoping that if we get the evidence from Stop Fracture, that by doing this, by referring people who need it into O'Neill,

we can actually reduce hip fractures.

And if we do that, then it would absolutely be in the government's best interest to reimburse on the Medibank schedule for O'Neill classes because just in the same way as perhaps a statin is helping people

you know, somebody with another condition, then Oniro is absolutely reducing fractures and it is saving the government $35,000 per hip fracture, and that's just one kind of fracture.