MedCity News April 3, 2025
Digital MSK solutions are proving effective for upstream care because that’s where they start to intervene; engaging people with exercise therapy, education and nonaddictive pain relief right at the onset of their pain.
Too many unnecessary and unsuccessful surgeries are driving enormous healthcare costs.
Musculoskeletal (MSK) pain, or pain in joints, ligaments and muscles, is very common, with lower back pain alone affecting 39% of U.S. adults. Over the years, rates of spine surgery have trended upward. A report at the end of 2024 found that on average, 14% of spinal fusions were considered “overuse.” Between 2019 and 2021, an estimated more than 200,000 unnecessary spine surgeries cost Medicare an estimated $2 billion.
This is not to say that...
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