Locally owned advanced rehabilitation and performance center Matterhorn Fit is collaborating with NCH to provide health and wellness services to local medical patients. These services will be offered in addition to what NCH already offers its concierge patients through its rehabilitation and wellness centers.
Established in 2018, Matterhorn Fit co-founders Ryan Vesce and Sean Sullivan had a goal to improve and enable active lifestyles for all ages. Vesce, a professional hockey player for 14 years, established Matterhorn Fit’s processes based on his experiences with his own injuries.
“It’s a combination of all these elite techniques from these multiple practitioners I met in the different countries that I played in, and I put it together into one cohesive process to heal my own body after my major back and hip surgery,” Vesce said. “It worked, and then I played for five more years pain-free. The day I retired, we said, ‘Let’s get this to work for other people,’ in particular, active seniors in the area.”
Vesce and Sullivan’s rehabilitation strategies report a more than 90% success rate in fixing chronic and acute pain issues within two weeks. “It’s proved very successful in over thousands of active individuals of all ages from youth through active seniors,” Vesce said. “The goal of this [collaboration] is really to enable that process, to reach many more of the Naples population and Southwest Florida population than we have in the past.”
Matterhorn’s connection with NCH began through working with the hospital’s senior executives on their own physical injuries. It started with NCH Chief Strategy Officer Mike Riley who turned to Matterhorn for an elbow injury he had for years, which quickly was resolved through rehabilitation. Other NCH company officials then were referred to Matterhorn for various injuries, including CEO Paul Hiltz for his shoulder and Chief Financial Officer Rick Wyles.
“It was really organic because our process and our expertise … to provide not only results but hope and optimism in the ability to regain that active lifestyle many people desire. It was just a natural fit to bring it not only to their internal population but to the patients at NCH as well,” Vesce said.
Musculoskeletal injuries are primarily what Matterhorn Fit will be addressing with NCH patients. “[It’s for] people with back, shoulder, knee and hip pain, and people who have come out of physical therapy and exhausted their insurance and still not all the way where they want to be or they want to be able to get back to doing those extra things they love,” Vesce said. “That’s where we are able to use our process to get them the rest of the way. We fit in that equation before surgery, after surgery, after physical therapy and kind of all points of that range.”
This is Matterhorn Fit’s first collaboration with a surrounding health care provider, but Vesce and the rest of the team has more in the works.
“What this does for us, it’s validation for what we’ve built so far,” Vesce said. “It’s made an entry point for us to continue to move toward a total wellness solution not only for hospital providers but for other at-risk health care providers.”
The team at NCH said this new partnership will enhance the high standard the hospital has for providing patients with health and wellness services.
“The Matterhorn Fit team has developed an exceptional process,” Hiltz said. “We are proud to collaborate with them to offer their services as another option to thousands of our concierge medicine patients.”
