Systematic Review of Social Networking Support Groups for Genetic-Disorders Pain Management

The pervasive opioid crisis in the United States highlights the challenges that many individuals have with pain management. One population that struggles with pain management are communities that experience genetic disorders. In this paper we present a literature review that examines the findings of the extant literature regarding pain management for genetic disorders on social media. We find that while research regarding social media in healthcare management has been increasing, there are still relatively few papers that address social media and pain management, We present a research agenda for the study of pain management techniques enabled by social media

Use of eHealth technologies to enable the implementation of musculoskeletal Models of Care: Evidence and practice

Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions are the second leading cause of morbidity-related burden of disease globally. EHealth is a potentially critical factor that enables the implementation of accessible, sustainable and more integrated MSK models of care (MoCs). MoCs serve as a vehicle to drive evidence into policy and practice through changes at a health system, clinician and patient level. The use of eHealth to implement MoCs is intuitive, given the capacity to scale technologies to deliver system and economic efficiencies, to contribute to sustainability, to adapt to low-resource settings and to mitigate access and care disparities. We follow a practice-oriented approach to describing the ‘what’ and ‘how’ to harness eHealth in the implementation of MSK MoCs. We focus on the practical application of eHealth technologies across care settings to those MSK conditions contributing most substantially to the burden of disease, including osteoarthritis and inflammatory arthritis, skeletal fragility-associated conditions and persistent MSK pain