Patients commonly present to primary care physicians with musculoskeletal symptoms. Clinicians certified in internal medicine must be knowledgeable about the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal diseases, yet they often receive inadequate postgraduate training on this topic. The musculoskeletal problems most frequently encountered in our busy injection practice involve, in decreasing ord...

BACKGROUND Musculoskeletal pain in people with type 2 diabetes is a common issue even to this day. The study aimed to explore the 10-year cumulative incidence of musculoskeletal pain, the mean number of doctor visits for musculoskeletal pain, and the mean number of doctor visits for musculoskeletal pain by location in people with type 2 diabetes, compared with respective values for people witho...

NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Raashid Luqmani, DM, FRCP, Professor Please address correspondence to: Prof. Raashid Luqmani, NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Science, Unive...

Introduction The musculoskeletal examination has been shown to be poorly documented in the UK, despite musculoskeletal problems being common in children. Recent research has shown that examination of the joints is highly acceptable to patients and parents The musculoskeletal examination has been included in the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health clinical examination since 2009 and tea...

results total prevalence's of subjects with wrist-hand, shoulder-arm, neck back and lower limb disorders were obtained 556 (82.6%), 352 (52.3%), 238 (35.4%), 454 (67.5%), and 149 (22.1%) respectively (p = 0.028). the highest cumulative risk was corresponded to wrist-hand, and after that were cumulative risks of back, shoulder-arm, neck, and lower limb respectively. objectives this study was con...

background: occupational stress has physical and psychological consequences, and is a major cause of job dissatisfaction among employees, which can reduce the quality of services provided. this study was conducted to examine the relationship between job stress and the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders (msds) among computer users in hospitals (private & governmental) of gorgan, iran, in 20...

musculoskeletal disorders are an important occupational health problem in dentistry. few studies have compared these disorders in dentists with other occupational groups. we assessed musculoskeletal disorders in female dentists in comparison with female pharmacists. a cross-sectional study by means of musculoskeletal nordic questionnaire was performed among 191 female general dentists and 211 f...

background :musculoskeletal disorders are among the most prevalent occupational disorders in different jobs such as office work. some interventions such as ergonomic modifications and workplace exercises are introduced as the methods for alleviating these disorders. in this study we compared the effect of ergonomic modifications and workplace exercises on musculoskeletal pain and discomfort in ...