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A Doctor on Demand for Shoulder Pain: How Treatment is Effective from Home
When you’re dealing with shoulder pain, it can become difficult to move any part of your arm. Even the simplest of tasks can become frustrating. Thanks to modern medicine, you now have access to on-demand doctors that can help simplify your road to recovery. These...
Mobile Health to Treat My Arm Pain: Getting Care from the Comfort of Home
If you’re experiencing arm pain, you know that it doesn’t have to be severe to interfere with your life. Even mild pain, when consistent, is still chronic pain. This could be from a recent injury, or an older injury that was reaggravated. Either way, you deserve to...
Physical Therapy from Home for Knee Pain—Here’s Where to Start
Pain-free movement is a luxury that we don’t often notice until it’s gone. That’s why chronic knee pain, or even temporary stiffness, can make people view their mobility in a new light. When carefree moving is taken away from us, it’s a reminder to maintain as much...
Introducing PeerWell Health: Access the Best Specialty Doctors and At-Home Care, Today.
"As a physician, I've seen a lot of digital healthcare solutions, but the balance of tech and touch is always off. Touch—really taking care of patients—has been missing in the musculoskeletal space to date. We can't successfully help patients with lasting improvement,...
Knee Physical Therapy From Home for Pain and a Faster Recovery
Knee pain is uncomfortable at best, and debilitating at worst. Knee pain and joint discomfort makes it difficult to complete basic tasks, distracts you from your work, and stops you from engaging in fun activities. Oftentimes, the root cause of knee pain is left...
How Digital PreHab and ReHab to Treat Musculoskeletal Conditions Delivers Real Results
When it comes to musculoskeletal recovery, a well thought out treatment program can transform a life. PeerWell’s digital healthcare platform is individualized and precise. We use tools that manage pain, help temper anxiety, and foster a take-charge approach to one’s...
What is Surgery Optimization and How Much Can It Save You?
With so many parties involved in a patient's medical care—even more so in the event of a work-related MSK disorder, each serves to benefit from a safe and quick return to normal. Enter Surgery optimization, a process built to improve outcomes for patients, employers,...
Is Wearable Healthcare Technology Too Much for the Average Patient?
Recently, we've watched companies pop up, promising injury recovery and digital physical therapy using wearable devices. Using this technology, these companies promise to reduce recovery time and provide data to clinicians. But here's the thing. Wearables are great...
What’s Next for Telehealth Services? Giving End-to-End Virtual Care to Patients
In the past year, we've seen telehealth move from an exciting investment opportunity to a necessary part of care. As many health systems scrambled to switch to virtual during the pandemic, there was uncertainty about the value to the patients. After all, can patients...
Stress and Musculoskeletal Disorders: The Psychological Side of MSK
Stress, isolation, and disconnection—three things that the last year has made all too familiar. People have spent the last year watching death counts and unemployment numbers climb, moved from offices and meetings to Zoom calls, and replaced office chairs with kitchen...
The Cost of a Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorder
When it comes to workplace injuries, all too often, the methods of prevention are designed around citation-worthy offenses. Highly cited violations like those pertaining to fall protection, machine guarding, and lockout/tagout are easy to spot and failures are likely...
Alcohol Cessation Before Surgery: Why it’s Critical for Your Injured Workers
Alcohol, prescription medications, surgery, and a safe recovery certainly do not go together. Whether your patient is an occasional drinker or fully dependent on alcohol (about 8% of the US), it’s a good idea for your injured workers to stop drinking before surgery....
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