BACKGROUND Tennis-teaching professionals represent a significant proportion of all avid tennis players worldwide, with 15,000 belonging to the largest professional organization, the United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA). However, there is no epidemiologic study to date reporting the prevalence of musculoskeletal conditions in these tennis-teaching professionals. PURPOSE To inv...

Musculoskeletal conditions are the leading contributors to disability burden globally and account for 27.4% of total disability burden in Australia. Timely research that addresses important questions relevant to consumers, clinicians and policymakers is critical for reducing the burden associated with these conditions. Clinical trials are particularly important for providing information about w...

A great variety of musculoskeletal conditions are found associated with diabetes. The conditions may have a variable degree of association with diabetes and include musculoskeletal and neuromuscular disorders and gout. The present review is intended to cover the informination available regarding musculoskeletal disorders. The discovery of one of these disorders may provide a clue to underlying ...

The next scheduled update for this topic will be December 2003. Introduction 4 Scope and Key Questions 5 Methods 8 Literature Search 8 Study Selection 8 Data Abstraction 9 Quality Assessment 10 Data Synthesis 11 Results 11 Summary 25 References 26 Tables Table 1. Overview of included systematic reviews on skeletal muscle relaxants 38 Table 2. Overview of head-to-head trials of skeletal muscle r...

Arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions dominate the national illness burden worldwide. This chapter presents information on the different types of societal and individual impacts of musculoskeletal conditions, and describes the appropriate way to evaluate and present these effects. There are three types of 'costs' associated with musculoskeletal conditions: direct, indirect and intangible. Th...

background/objective: musculoskeletal disorders (msds) are one of the most common causes of occupational injuries. this study was conducted with the objectives of determination of prevalence rate of msds and ergonomics assessment of the risk of msds among workers of a petrochemical company. methods: in this study, 261randomly selected workers in a petrochemical company with at least one year of...

background: studies on the prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (wmsds) in computer users is high. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of three ergonomics intervention on body posture and musculoskeletal disorders in office workers (computer users) in isfahan gas company. these interventions include education, sports and installation of software on computer systems...

INTRODUCTION Although injuries are recognized as a leading health problem in the military, the size of the problem is underestimated when only acute traumatic injuries are considered. Injury-related musculoskeletal conditions are common in this young, active population. Many of these involve physical damage caused by micro-trauma (overuse) in recreation, sports, training, and job performance. T...