BACKGROUND The prevalence of musculoskeletal pain in the shoulder, arm and hand is high among slaughterhouse workers, allegedly due to the highly repetitive and forceful exposure of these body regions during work. Work disability is a common consequence of these pains. Lowering the physical exposure through ergonomics intervention is the traditional strategy to reduce the workload. An alternati...

Background: The revised National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) lifting equation (RNLE) is commonly used for risk assessment of manual handling, and can estimate low back pain (LBP) biomechanical stressors of lifting and/or lowering of loads. The aim of this study was to evaluate manual material handling by using the RNLE, LBP, and LBP disability index (LBPDI) among worker...

Objective: The objective of this study is to investigate whether age a significant risk factor for spinal nerve injury following selective neck dissection (SND) in patients with head and cancer. Methods: A retrospective cohort was conducted on who had undergone SND cancer at tertiary hospital between 2020 2022. primary outcome the incidence after SND. secondary outcomes included types severity ...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of an intervention including shoulder control and strengthening exercises on function in persons with shoulder impingement. Eight subjects with shoulder impingement were evaluated weekly during the nine weeks of this single-subject design study. The study was divided into three phases (A(1)-B-A(2)) and involved repeated measures of shoulder pain a...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effectiveness of subacromial corticosteroid injection combined with timely exercise and manual therapy (injection plus exercise) or exercise and manual therapy alone (exercise only) in patients with subacromial impingement syndrome. DESIGN Pragmatic randomised clinical trial. SETTING Primary care based musculoskeletal service. Patients Adults aged 40 or over with su...

BACKGROUND Shoulder pain is a common complaint in primary health care and has an unfavourable outcome in many patients. The objectives were to identify predictors for pain and disability (SPADI) and work status in patients with subacromial shoulder pain. METHODS Secondary analyses of data from a randomized clinical controlled trial were performed. Outcome measures were the absolute values of ...

Introduction The SPADI, developed by Roach et al in 1991, is a self-administered questionnaire designed to measure pain and disability associated with shoulder pathology in the outpatient setting. It consists of 13 items5 pain and 8 disability, all scored 0 to 100. All items are equally weighted then added for a percentage score 0 (best) to 100 (worst). Completion time is documented generally t...

BACKGROUND As an important outcome measure among rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, functional disability may contribute to unemployment, loss of work productivity, and impaired quality of life. However, little is known about the risk factors of functional disability in Chinese RA patients. This study aimed (1) to examine the prevalence of functional disability in Chinese RA patients; (2) to e...

Introduction: Work-related musculoskeletal abnormalities are one of the main causes of musculoskeletal injuries, followed by job-disability among employees. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between abnormal profiles and the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among academic staff men and women. Material and Methods: The present study is of a causal natur...

This study investigated the correlation between the neck disability index (NDI) and visual analogue scale (VAS), which are indicators of neck pain, shoulder joint range of motion (ROM), and muscle strength in women with a slight forward head posture. This study was carried out on 42 female college students attending Uiduk University in Gyeongju, Korea. The neck pain and disability index for eac...