1Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2 NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Leeds, UK, 3Division of Rheumatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 4Department of Orthopaedics, Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands, 5Department of Internal Medicine...

Forestry workers are exposed occupationally to a number of harmful or harmful factors in their working environment (whole body and hand-arm vibration, acoustic and infrasonic noise, biohazards, musculoskeletal loads and other) that may cause a variety of workrelated or occupational diseases (e.g. vibration syndrome, noiseinduced hearing loss, hand-arm, infectious and parasitic diseases, allergi...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of chronic musculoskeletal conditions in primary care. Among patients with these conditions, to estimate the mean number of comorbidities and the prevalence of chronic diseases that could deteriorate with use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). DESIGN Secondary analysis of data collected for a study on the prevalence of multimorbidity. SETT...

OBJECTIVES To study the co-morbidities of general practice patients with knee osteoarthritis. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Two private general practice clinics in Hong Kong. PATIENTS All patients presenting at the two clinics were screened for osteoarthritis of the knee based on American College of Rheumatology diagnostic criteria. Patients with osteoarthritis then completed a se...

In 1973, 502 employees in three metal industry plants, stratified by age, sex, and occupational class, were examined for physical workload by interview and observation at the workplace and for musculoskeletal disorders by questionnaire, interview, and clinical examination. Five years later, 88% of the sample were re-examined for their musculoskeletal status. The work of the blue collar groups w...

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? Musculoskeletal disease is a common condition that affects up to one-quarter of the population over 65 years in many developed countries. Over 6 million Australians (1) and 27 million Americans (2) are affected by some type of musculoskeletal disorder of which osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common. Musculoskeletal disorders account for one-fifth of all consultations with g...

BACKGROUND There is a lack of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) questionnaires to evaluate pediatric musculoskeletal diseases in Brazil. The Pediatric Outcome Data Collection Instrument (PODCI) is widely used elsewhere for pediatric patients with musculoskeletal disorders, but it has not been fully validated in Brazil. Validation of the PODCI in the Brazilian Portuguese language is importa...