Insights

Stories, research, and practical guidance.

Thoughts on chronic pain, recovery, coordinated care, and the systems that help people get better.

Two clinicians in a peer-to-peer conversation
  • Providers

Why We're Building 76 Health

A note to clinicians thinking about partnership or curious about the model — what we believe and what kind of partnership we're trying to make work.

·5 min read

Post-surgical recovery at home in gentle natural light
  • Recovery
  • Care Coordination

The First 72 Hours After Surgery

The hospital sends you home with a folder. By the time you've taken the first dose of pain medication, you've forgotten most of it. Here's the quiet checklist of what actually matters.

·4 min read

A patient logging headache data on a phone
  • Migraines
  • Care Coordination

The Headache Diary That Actually Works

The tool nearly every clinician recommends is the tool nearly no patient sustains. Here's why most headache diaries fail — and what a workable one looks like.

·4 min read

Inside a physical therapy clinic during a session
  • Insurance
  • Recovery

Visit Limits in Physical Therapy

Your insurance plan covers a limited number of PT visits per year. For patients with significant injuries or chronic conditions the cap often arrives before the recovery does.

·4 min read

A patient on hold with bills and paperwork on a kitchen table
  • Care Coordination
  • Chronic Pain

The Hidden Labor of Being Your Own Care Coordinator

One of the things we've been thinking about a lot while building 76 Health is the work that doesn't show up in any visit note but happens between every appointment.

·4 min read

A clinical team reviewing patient outcome data together
  • Care Coordination
  • Providers

Coordination as a Clinical Layer

When we started building 76 Health, we expected to spend most of our time thinking about admin work. The more interesting layer turned out to be clinical.

·5 min read

A patient on a video call with her care team
  • Recovery
  • Care Coordination

The Gap Between Visits

The more patients we talk to, the more convinced we become that healthcare's biggest problems live in the space between visits.

·5 min read

A medical journal open on a table next to coffee
  • Chronic Pain
  • Research

What We Keep Coming Back to in the Lancet's Back Pain Series

One of the most influential reports in modern musculoskeletal medicine sits behind paywalls. Here's what we've been taking from it — in plain English.

·4 min read

A patient holding the back of their neck in discomfort
  • Migraines
  • Chronic Pain

When Migraine Isn't Migraine

One of the most consequential things we've been learning is how often patients with a migraine diagnosis turn out to have a different condition layered underneath.

·4 min read

A patient with a migraine in dim natural light
  • Migraines
  • Care Coordination

The 15-Month Wait

One statistic keeps showing up in the published literature on headache care. The average wait to see a board-certified headache specialist is fifteen months.

·4 min read

A patient at physical therapy considering next steps
  • Recovery
  • Chronic Pain

When Recovery Stalls

Recovery rarely fails because the plan was wrong from the start. It usually fails because the plan stopped being right somewhere along the way — and nobody changed it.

·3 min read

An older patient hiking with their grandchildren
  • Chronic Pain
  • Research

Function Over Pain

The longer we spend talking to patients with chronic pain, the more we keep coming back to a simple observation: the number that matters most isn't on a 0-10 scale.

·3 min read

A patient looking out a window mid-recovery
  • Chronic Pain
  • Recovery

The Chronic Pain Plateau

One of the patterns we keep noticing while building 76 Health: the moment recovery stalls is often the moment patients quietly give up.

·4 min read

A patient in a remote physical therapy session
  • Research
  • Care Coordination

What We've Been Reading About Coordinated Digital Therapy Programs

Two companies in the chronic musculoskeletal space have published peer-reviewed outcomes. We've spent time reading what their data actually shows.

·4 min read

A physical therapist working with a patient on movement
  • Research
  • Chronic Pain

Conservative First, Escalation When Warranted

While building 76 Health, we've spent time reading the research on what should happen first with chronic pain. The pattern is remarkably consistent.

·4 min read

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