BACKGROUND This article is facilitated by the Australian Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group (CMSG) editorial base. The CMSG is one of the largest Cochrane review groups and produces reliable, up-to-date systematic reviews of interventions for the prevention, treatment or rehabilitation of musculoskeletal disorders. OBJECTIVE Our aim is to place the findings of recent Cochrane musculoskeletal revi...

Due to the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain and the increasing burden this is placing on society, an increased interest in possible treatment remedies of musculoskeletal pain is evident. The “news section” in a recent British Medical Journal reported that “complementary medicine is booming worldwide”. This is mainly the result of patient satisfaction, costeffectiveness of some of these comple...

Definition. Low level laser therapy (LLLT) in musculoskeletal disorders refers to monochromatic light therapy with lasers which have a mean optical output of larger than 1 mW, i.e. lasers in classes III and IIIa. A similar definition applies for light therapy with light emitting diodes (LEDT) when the mean optical output is larger than 1 mW. Trial reports should make explicit whether LLLT or LE...

Background and Purpose: Job stress is an important psychological factor. Musculoskeletal disorders are among the most common causes of disability in industrialized and developing countries. Therefore, this study aimed to assess job stress and its relationship with the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders in office workers of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Iran. Materials and Met...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prognostic value of pain in one body region on the risk for developing chronic pain in other body regions. METHODS Prospective cohort study among 5052 Danish female health care workers responding to a baseline and follow-up questionnaire in 2005 and 2006, respectively. Using adjusted logistic regression analysis, the risk for developing chronic pain (>30 days last ye...

background: musculoskeletal pain accompanied by psychological problems leads to reduced health efficiency. on the other hand, work-related anxiety and depression is another important factor that could result in reduced productivity in organizations and physical and mental problems in personnel. musculoskeletal disorders (msds) are the most common occupational health problems that have high cost...

to determine the prevalence of the musculoskeletal pain and its distribution by age, sex, and residential area in the province of isphahan. a sample consisting of 3753 urban and 2917 rural inhabtants were examined by a qualified medical team. our results indicate that the prevalence of the complaints for musculoskeletal pain increases with age to reach a maximum of 50% in those sixty years of a...

Prior to the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) 12 meeting in Budapest, Hungary, a workshop was held bringing together individuals from a number of international outcome measure organizations to assess how best to further develop consensus on how pain is conceptualized and measured in trials of musculoskeletal conditions, and how the trials should be reported in systematic reviews.

BACKGROUND Leading theories about the pathogenesis of fibromyalgia focus on central nervous dysregulation or sensitization, which can cause altered perception. There is growing evidence that fibromyalgia involves altered perception not only of pain, but also other sensory stimuli. On this basis, we investigated whether individuals with fibromyalgia are more likely to report subjective loss of h...