About the COCSG
Who We Are
The Canadian Orthopaedic Care Strategy Group (COCSG) is a not-for-profit organization that exists to raise awareness, validate and enhance the true benefits of musculoskeletal health and human mobility as it relates to Canadian productivity, competitiveness, total health care cost and the quality of life for all Canadians.
Our Vision
That Canadians can enjoy the benefits and opportunities of aging by minimizing the loss of mobility or functional disability.
Our Mission
To promote the prevention and management of impaired mobility and maintenance of functional disability, in order to improve individual and societal well-being and maximize health system effectiveness and efficiency
Our Rationale
- Approximately 11 million Canadians are aging with impaired mobility and disabling pain.
- As our aging population increases, so does this problem of impaired mobility.
- Immobility imposes an uneven economic burden on patients, their caregivers, and society.
- Aging is not and should not be an inevitable cause of immobility. Rather Canadians should expect that their healthy lifestyle along with full potential would not be limited by impaired mobility, as we get older.
- Good mobility promotes aging with dignity while reducing direct and indirect costs to the health care system.
- Currently, there is a lack of coordination and integration of prevention and care for mobility issues.
- There is insufficient awareness of the problem on the part of patients, the public and policy makers
- A sustained initiative that informs, inspires, and mobilizes everyone (patients, the public, industry, NGOs, government) to take effective action is needed.
The Pillars of Our Strategic Initiatives
The following four pillars are fundamental to our organization's initiatives, as determined by our members and stakeholders' interest, expertise and collaboration relative to our mission, vision and objectives:
- Personal/Lifestyle Realized - As an individual ages, he or she should be able to realize their fullest potential without compromise because of pain and impaired mobility.
- Societal - We believe aging Canadians have true value and recognize that their lives should not be diminished by impaired mobility
- Fiscal - It is imperative to begin appropriate action on mobility healthcare now because if we delay our society and healthcare system will not be able to meet the massive costs later.
- Medical - We believe in the effectiveness and efficiency of interventions, the concepts of best practices and best value (evidence-based care); and encouraging new ideas and research on technology, prevention and wellness (innovation).