How Maria tamed her chronic back pain?

“I couldn’t get up for 10 minutes,” Maria remembers. She was at the end of her 12-hour shift. May be muscle sprain, she first thought. Just 4 days later, this sprain had turned into debilitating back pain. Maria is a nurse working in a pediatric intensive care unit. It is true that nurses do some…

Breaking down barriers to MSK care for BIPOC workers

The world has disproportionally changed in the last 6 months. While the impact of Covid-19 has been felt everywhere in the US, the fallout from the pandemic clearly shows that some segments of our society, in particular, BIPOC communities have felt a disproportionate share of the disruption—from mortality to unemployment.   BIPOC stands for Black,…

How to deliver high-quality musculoskeletal (MSK) benefits at lower cost?

In the COVID-19 era, benefit leaders are struggling to find the right composition of their 2021 benefits package amongst complex, unknown, and ever-changing workforce challenges. Despite the challenges, there has never been a better time to rethink the benefit design that would meet the evolving needs of future. A future where the workforce will likely…