How to promote digital MSK programs during the pandemic?

Six months into pandemic, it doesn’t look like remote working and zoom meetings are going away anytime soon. This also means that for many of us will continue to hunch over laptops on beds and subject our arms to ill-placed keyboards. The result: months of poor posture is leading to back pain, neck pain and…

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,…