Abstract Background Impaired work ability and reduced life satisfaction due to long-term musculoskeletal pain, particularly in neck, shoulders back, are considered occupational health problems that can result workers taking sick leave. The aim of the study was determine whether predict return (RTW) among women with neck/shoulder and/or back assess Work Ability Index (WAI) Life Satisfaction Ques...

The use of backpack increased substantially among the school children. Studies have shown that carrying a backpack cause to develop different symptoms of musculoskeletal disorders among the carrier of the backpack. In India there are fewer studies available in literature which explains the musculoskeletal discomfort among the school children. This study aimed at to find out the prevalence of di...

BACKGROUND Whether acupuncture treatment employing multiple penetrating, skin-touch placebo, or no-touch placebo needles designed for double blinding actually do blind practitioners and patients has not been investigated. We aimed to investigate this question. SUBJECTS 120 patients with functional neck/shoulder stiffness but in otherwise healthy condition were randomly assigned to a treatment...

background: there are some challenges about the role of work- related stress on development of musculoskeletal complaints. the present prospective study was conducted on nurses of milad hospital in tehran (iran) to assess the role of work- related stress on development of neck and shoulder pain among nurses.   methods: from the 1,900 nurses who completed the registry forms, 1,450 nurses met the...

Introduction: Chronic pain and depression are two of common geriatric disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between chronic pain and depressive symptoms in older people in Amirkola.   Methods: This cross-sectional study is part of Amirkola Health and Aging Project. It is an ongoing cohort project which was being conducted from 2011 on all people aged 60 and ...

BACKGROUND Studies exploring the association between physical activity, screen time and sleep and pain usually focus on a limited number of painful body sites. Nevertheless, pain at different body sites is likely to be of different nature. Therefore, this study aims to explore and compare the association between time spent in self-reported physical activity, in screen based activities and sleep...

Background and aims: Nowadays, work-related musculoskeletal disorders are the most commonoccupational diseases. The prevention of these disorders requires a posture analysis during workand the improvement of working conditions. The purpose of this study was to determine risk factorsfor musculoskeletal disorders and corrective priorities to perform the work by conducting postur...

AIM The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of structural shoulder pathology using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in three groups of older people: those with current shoulder pain, those with a previous history of shoulder pain and those with no history of shoulder pain, within a community-based sample. METHODS Thirty subjects (10 within each of the three groups) participated ...