Patients participate in the Lucid Lane therapy program including working with a mental health pain coach for up to 4 weeks before surgery and 4 weeks after surgery.

All patients receive therapy provided by Lucid Lane, for 4 weeks after surgery

Patients will participate in a a surgery preparedness course provided by the VA before surgery (Standard of Care) and Lucid Lane therapy after surgery

All patients receive therapy provided by Lucid Lane, for 4 weeks after surgery

This intervention is designed to aid participants with pre-surgery anxiety management and surgery prep and pain management post-surgery. Participants will be assigned a Lucid Lane pain coach who will utilize mindfulness, cognitive behavioral therapy, group therapy, and mind-body therapies, to accomplish those goals.

The KOOS and HOOS are questionnaires designed to assess short and long-term patient-relevant outcomes following knee/hip injury. They are self-administered and assess five outcomes: pain, symptoms, activities of daily living, sport and recreation function, and knee/hip-related quality of life. The scores are normalized on a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 indicates severe problems and 100 indicates no problems.

The Pain catastrophizing scale (PCS) is a self administered, 13-item questionnaire, used to assess a patient's tendency to magnify the threat value of a pain stimulus. It assess rumination, magnification and helplessness. Responses are recorded on a scale of 0-4, where 0 represents absence of the thought and 4 represents the presence of the thought all the time. The scale has a min score of 0 and a max score of 52. A higher score indicates more pain catastrophizing .

The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is a 9-item self administered questionnaire used to screen and monitor the severity of depressive symptoms. It inquires about depressive features, that align with the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, over the course of 2 weeks. Responses are recorded on a scale of 0-3, where 0 represents absence of the symptom and 3 represents its presence nearly every day.

The General Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) is a self administered, 7-item questionnaire used to measure general anxiety disorder and its severity. Responses are recorded on a scale of 0-3, where 0 represents an absence of the symptom and 3 represents presence nearly every day.