BACKGROUND A fracture of the distal radius is a commonly occurring fracture and accounts for a third of all fractures in the elderly. Thus far, one year estimates of pain and disability following a fracture of the distal radius have been reported on Canadian populations. The primary aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence of pain and disability in a UK population one year post fractu...

Background: Neck Pain is a prevalent musculoskeletal condition usually associated with disability. Psychological illnesses like anxiety and depression are commonly seen in chronic pain. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between anxiety, disability patients non-specific neck pain.Methods: 87 pain were recruited cross-sectional study. evaluated index, generalized disorder...

Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common work–related health problems, affecting care professionals. In Malaysia, research data on prevalence low pain, and its associated risk factors, among occupational therapists, currently lacking. view this situation study aimed at identifying prevalence, effects LBP, therapists in Malaysia. This cross-sectional involves a total 287 therapists. The ins...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective database analysis. OBJECTIVE A range of patient-reported outcomes were used to measure disability due to low back pain. There is not a single back pain disability measurement commonly used in all randomized controlled trials. We report here our assessment as to whether different disability measures are sufficiently comparable to allow data pooling across trials. S...

STUDY DESIGN Prospective study. PURPOSE We aimed to validate the Persian version of the modified Oswestry disability questionnaire (MODQ) in patients with low back pain. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Modified Oswestry low back pain disability questionnaire is a well-known condition-specific outcome measure that helps quantify disability in patients with lumbar syndromes. METHODS To test the vali...

OBJECTIVE To determine the association between joint complaints and locomotor disability. METHODS During a home interview survey 1901 men and 3135 women aged 55 years and over (the Rotterdam Study) were asked about joint pain and morning stiffness in the past month, and locomotor disability was assessed by six questions from the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ). RESULTS The prevalence ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate musculoskeletal disorders among active industrial workers. METHODS The study was carried out in São Carlos, Southeastern Brazil, in 2005. One hundred and thirty-four female workers were physically evaluated and answered questions about their physical symptoms, filled out a pain scale and gave responses in the Oswestry Disability Questionnaire, and the Work Ability Index ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of a 9-week yoga intervention on chronic nonspecific neck pain 12 months after completion. DESIGN Twelve-month follow-up of the pooled data of both arms of a randomized, controlled trial. SETTING Department of Internal and Integrative Medicine at an academic teaching hospital. SUBJECTS Fifty-one patients with chronic nonspecific neck pain (mean age 47.8 ye...

Objective: To compare pain, disability and plasma inflammatory-mediators (tumornecrosis-factor [TNF]-alpha, soluble-TNF-receptor-1 [sTNF-R1], interleukin [IL]-1β, IL6) between elderly women with acute low back pain (LBP) “at risk” or “without risk” for sarcopenia. Subjects and methods: 155 women, from the “International Back Complaints in the Elders” study, were divided into groups: “without sa...