A sample case study: the fictional Northshore set

A worked example of the ledger, the named queries and the receipt, on fictional Northshore Physical Therapy data. Real case studies follow the same shape.

Northshore Physical Therapy · measured from Encinitas and Carlsbad, California Fictional

The short version. Flip it and we show our work: the method, the numbers, the sources. Site-wide, or one section at a time.

The same questions, asked again. What changed.

Each line is one question on one engine: what the answer was, what was published in between, and what the answer is now. If the question is not named, it is not on this page.

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Question	Engine	Was	Now	What was published
Physical therapy after ACL surgery Carlsbad	Gemini	Lost (Coastal Motion PT)	▲ Held, confirmed 5/5	Program page, Aug 14
Does Northshore PT take Medicare?	Copilot	Wrong claim	▲ Corrected	Directory update, Aug 20
Dry needling near me Encinitas	Perplexity	Nobody	▲ Held, provisional 3/5	Service page, Aug 28
Best physical therapist for runners in Encinitas	Perplexity	Lost (Coastal Motion PT)	= Lost (Coastal Motion PT)	Brief 14 in progress
Cash pay physical therapy North County, is it worth it	AI Mode	Held	▼ Lost (Movement Lab)	Nothing shipped; re-asked Monday

how confirmed and provisional are decided, and how long a flip takes

How it went.

Northshore Physical Therapy is fictional. It exists so this site can show the shape of a result without borrowing a real client’s data before they have agreed to it. Every number on this page is invented. The format is exactly what a real case study will use.

The shape is fixed: a ledger of movement with every query named, one receipt from a lost question, and one from a wrong claim that was corrected. Nothing is summarized as a score that went up. If the query is not named, it is not on the page.

Real case studies land here in November, with permission, with receipts blurred where they show a client’s own portal.

One answer, kept as given.

Every line above points to an answer we saved, word for word, the day the engine gave it. This is one of them.

Gemini · Sept 8, 2026

Q: Physical therapy after ACL surgery Carlsbad

For post-ACL rehabilitation in Carlsbad, Northshore Physical Therapy runs a return-to-sport program with staged strength benchmarks at its Carlsbad location, and Coastal Motion PT offers a general post-surgical track. Sources: northshorept.com/acl, carlsbad-chamber.org

Sample receipt, fictional client. The August page is the first cited source.

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