What are the symptoms of musculoskeletal cancers in adolescents? The most common symptom is pain. Often the pain is associated with an incidental episode of trauma. However, trauma is neither related to nor causative of the lesion. Unlike pain due to trauma (eg, fracture, muscle pull), pain due to musculoskeletal tumors does not decrease with time; rather, it increases with time. Night pain and...

AIMS To describe the presence of musculoskeletal co-morbidity of the neck and upper extremities among industrial workers with low back pain, and to examine whether it has an impact on healthcare utilisation and sickness absence for low back pain. METHODS A self administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 505 industrial workers (response 86%). RESULTS The 12 month prevalence of ...

BACKGROUND Studies on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA-axis) function amongst patients with chronic pain show equivocal results and well-controlled cohort studies are rare in this field. The goal of our study was to examine whether HPA-axis dysfunction is associated with the presence and the severity of chronic multi-site musculoskeletal pain. METHODS Data are from the Netherlands Stu...

Sports and physical activity provide multiple social and health benefits to participants, but may also increase the risk of developing musculoskeletal pain and injuries, especially in skeletally immature adolescents. This review outlines the 1) measurement and prevalence of musculoskeletal pain in adolescents, 2) dose-response relationship between the organized sports activity and musculoskelet...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether musculoskeletal pain (pain severity and number of chronic pain sites; single or multisite) is associated with balance confidence over and above previously established risk factors. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Ten community sites (five day centres, two sheltered housing schemes and three community 'clubs') in the UK. PARTICIPANTS Two hundred and eig...

BACKGROUND Psychosocial factors play an important role in chronic musculoskeletal pain disorders. Although psychosocial stress is likely to contribute to the development of chronic musculoskeletal pain, investigations are limited to work-related stress or examination of specific conditions such as upper limb pain. The purpose of this review is to assess the evidence for an aetiological role of ...

It is difficult to predict musculoskeletal pain as a withdrawal syndrome following the discontinuation of imatinib (IM) in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia. We investigated a link between physical size and musculoskeletal pain following IM discontinuation. In total, seven out of 24 patients developed musculoskeletal pain after discontinuing IM. Those with symptoms had a significantly lowe...

Lower extremity musculoskeletal pain is common in childhood and affects up to 16% of the school-aged population (Junnilla&Cartwright, 2006a).Whilemusculoskeletal pain is common, the possible etiologies are broad, ranging from benign to serious. A presenting complaint of lower extremity musculoskeletal pain may be due to trauma, inflammatory conditions, infection, or hematologic or oncologic pro...