US Bone & Joint Decade (USBJD)

The impact from bone and joint disorders on society, the healthcare system and on the individual, combined with the awareness that our resources need to be more efficiently used, led to an initiative beginning with an inaugural Consensus Meeting held in Sweden in April in 1998 and culminating in a proposal for the Decade of the Bone and Joint from 2000 to 2010. The objective of the consensus meeting was to create a document describing the problem, current treatment options and to delineate future prospective regarding treatment of and research on musculo- skeletal disorders and injuries.