Traditional methods of treating musculoskeletal (MSK) pain disorders have emphasized a patient-level focus, prioritizing individualized care and tailored treatment plans. Healthcare providers practice techniques to improve outcomes for individual patients. Likewise,...
Patient navigation practices and value-based care models have been around for decades. Only over the past several years has the healthcare industry more fully embraced the combined potency of these patient-centered models, especially when directed at populations...
Musculoskeletal, or MSK, care has frustrated and puzzled policymakers and healthcare leaders for decades, given its inconsistent quality and the massive, and rising, cost it imposes on society. Time and again, we’ve heard how the U.S. spends 20% of its healthcare...
Roughly half of adults in the U.S. live with joint, back or muscle pain caused by a musculoskeletal, or MSK, condition. Treatments cost a staggering $380 billion annually, which we might consider reasonable if it yielded great results. Sadly, that’s far from the case....
