In a retrospective survey of 34 patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (HPT), 18 (53%0 complained of musculo-skeletal symptoms during the 12 months before the diagnosis was made and 9 (26%) attended at some time for either a rheumatological or orthopaedic consultation. Myalgia was the most frequently reported symptom which occurred in 41% of patients. Arthralgia, mainly affecting the large j...

STUDY OBJECTIVE For orthopaedic outpatients judged as unlikely to require surgery, how does the cost-effectiveness of treatment from a musculo-skeletal medicine physician compare with that of a conventional orthopaedic surgeon-led service? DESIGN Partially randomised, pragmatic trial comparing management from a single musculo-skeletal medicine physician with orthopaedic surgeon-led management...

Los abscesos del músculo psoas representan una patología con muy baja incidencia a nivel mundial, por lo que se requiere de mucho diagnóstico para su abordaje y generalmente relaciona enfermedades gastrointestinales. El es tardío debido sus manifestaciones clínicas son poco específicas, trae como consecuencia, un pronóstico particularmente malo en la mayoría los casos. Se presenta acumulación p...

Orthopaedic surgery is a long established surgical specialty. Practitioners complete training which focuses on those musculo-skeletal conditions for which surgery is the preferred treatment option. Diagnosis and assessment are performed to exclude those for whom surgical intervention is not indicated. Finestone and others argue in their recent IJHPR paper that we need a subspecialty to cater fo...

The work reported here had two main aims. First, the frequency and nature of offshore sickbay consultations in relation to personal and job-related factors (including age, job type, job level and shift work) was examined in data relating to 1944 sickbay consultations. Second, the correspondence between health information derived from self-report survey data and that recorded in sickbay consulta...

In rheumatology ultrasound is a relatively new but rapidly developing field, and now forms an important part of curriculum of rheumatology training programs in European countries. Ultrasound is now an accepted procedure to differentiate between arthralgia and arthritis, to look for erosions in early arthritis which is otherwise not visible on plain radiographs, to scan tendons in enthesopathies...

BACKGROUND Low back pain (LBP) is the most prevalent musculo-skeletal condition in rural and remote Australian Aboriginal communities. Smoking, physical inactivity and obesity are also prevalent amongst Indigenous people contributing to lifestyle diseases and concurrently to the high burden of low back pain. OBJECTIVES This paper aims to examine the association between LBP and modifiable risk...