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Musculoskeletal Care

Sword Health is the first company to predict, prevent, and treat pain - in one human-led, AI-powered platform. Your team gets the individualized treatment they need, from the comfort of their homes—freeing them from pain, and you from lost productivity and costly healthcare bills.

The Challenge

At $560 billion, pain is the #1 driver of healthcare costs.1 More expensive than cancer and diabetes combined, the way we treat pain is broken. 

26 Days

Is the average wait time for an appointment with a physician.2

50%

Of patients drop out of traditional physical therapy after just 4 sessions.3

~$31,641

Is the median cost of musculoskeletal procedures.4

50%

Of back surgeries and 20% of joint surgeries are ineffective.5

How Sword Could Help
  • Sword members work with experienced specialists, each with a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree - never health coaches. 
     

  • Proprietary AI turns our clinical experts into superheroes for unmatched member care. 
     

  • Real-time feedback and ongoing dialogue allow members to understand their progress - and enable clinical experts to continuously tailor programs to help members reach their goals. 
     

  • With more technology patents and clinical results than any company in the industry, Sword delivers unparalleled healthcare cost savings and the highest-quality member outcomes. 

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1Gaskin, Darrell, Richard, Patrick. The Economic Costs of Pain in the United States. American Pain Society. 2012, 2AMN/Merritt Hawkins, 2022 Survey of Physician Appointment Wait Times and Medicare and Medicaid Acceptance Rates, 3The Morgan Company, Physical Therapy Episodes for Low Back Pain: Medicare Spending and Intensity of Physical Therapy Services, October, 2017, 4Connelly, Luke, Woolf, Anthony, Brooks, Peter. Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, Chapter 51, Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions for Musculoskeletal Conditions, 2006, and 5A Multidisciplinary Spine Surgical Indications Conference Leads to Alterations in Surgical Plans in a Significant Number of Cases: A Case Series, January, 2021.

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