Welcome

Dr. Rundell’s population health and musculoskeletal pain lab conducts epidemiologic and health services research of musculoskeletal conditions, with a focus on low back pain and chronic musculoskeletal pain conditions in older adults. His overall research goal is to enhance our understanding of spine conditions and back-related disability in older adults to improve the delivery and quality of health care for this population. 

Dr. Rundell is currently leading the Lumbar Stenosis Prognostic Subgroups for Personalizing Care and Treatment (PROSPECTS) Study.  PROSPECTS is a prospective, inception cohort study supported by the National Institute On Aging of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01AG069891. 

The objective of PROSPECTS is to better understand prognosis for older adults with lumbar spinal stenosis and then develop and evaluate a clinically useful predictive model of long-term function in older patients initiating non-surgical care for symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis. 

His other recent research projects investigate prognosis of people with spine conditions and the relationships between multimorbidity and back pain in older adults.