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...

Bone and muscle are dynamic tissues. Muscle adapts to stimuli above thresholds (energetic emptying > exhaustion). Wolff’s law states that structural bone adaptation is driven by the experienced bone strains. Osteocytes within our bones regulate bone formation and degradation in response to mechanical stimuli. The largest strains emerge from muscle contractions. A lot of diseases are associated ...

Musculoskeletal pain and impaired function present the most common chronic health disorders. They are a huge burden on society affecting the economy as well as having serious consequences for quality of life at the individual level. Musculoskeletal disorders are one of the largest work related problems. They interfere with both activities of daily living and work ability, and constitute large e...

Musculoskeletal system is a complex assembly of tissues which acts as scaffold for the body and enables locomotion. It is often overlooked that different components of this system may biomechanically interact and affect each other. Skeletal dysplasias are diseases predominantly affecting the development of the osseous skeleton. However, in some cases skeletal dysplasia patients are referred to ...

The number of elders suffering from chronic debilitating disorders increases with increase in lifespan.2 Rheumatic musculoskeletal problems are a major cause of morbidity in elderly population. The prevalence of musculoskeletal problems reported in a study in elderly population from rural and urban areas of north India was 65.7% in males and 75.4% in females.3 The rheumatic diseases in elderly ...