• Ana-Maria Vranceanu, Jafar Bakhshaie, Mira Reichman, David Ring, and International Musculoskeletal Mental and Social Health Consortium (IMESH).
• Integrated Brain Health Clinical and Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1 Bowdoin Square, 1st Floor, Boston, MA, 02114, USA. avranceanu@mgh.harvard.edu.
• J Clin Psychol Med Settings. 2021 Oct 4.

AbstractDespite increasing recognition of psychosocial factors in musculoskeletal conditions, its impact on reducing the global toll of musculoskeletal symptoms has been only incremental. It is time to bring together clinicians and researchers with heterogeneous backgrounds, unified by a commitment to reduce the global impact of musculoskeletal illness by addressing mental and social health factors. In 2020, we initiated the International Musculoskeletal Mental and Social Health Consortium. Our current key priority areas are: (1) Develop best practices for uniform terminology, (2) Understand barriers to mental and social health care for musculoskeletal conditions, (3) Develop clinical and research resources. The purpose of this paper is to render a call to interdisciplinary collaboration on the psychological aspects of musculoskeletal health. We believe this international interdisciplinary collaboration is pivotal to the advancement of the biopsychosocial model of musculoskeletal care and has the potential to improve the health of individuals with musculoskeletal conditions globally.© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

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