The Cochrane Musculoskeletal Review Group (CMSG) is made up of health care professionals, researchers and consumer representatives that belong to the Cochrane Collaboration, an international, non-profit organization that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about health care by preparing, maintaining and promoting reviews of the effects of health care treatments.
The CMSG produces reliable, up-to-date reviews of interventions for the prevention, treatment or rehabilitation of musculoskeletal disorders in the form of systematic reviews.
The CMSG is also dedicated to making our systematic reviews available to those interested in treatments for musculoskeletal diseases (see more about our efforts to communicate the evidence).
The years 2000 to 2010 have been officially endorsed by many countries across the world as the Bone and Joint Decade (BJD). The CMSG fully supports the goals of the BJD:
1. to reduce the social and financial cost of musculoskeletal disorders to society;
2. to improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment for all patients;
3. to advance research on prevention and treatment; and
4. to empower patients to make decisions about their care.
The Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group is grateful for the financial support of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the University of Ottawa, the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, and the Cabrini Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
