background: . the aim of this study was to investigate of relationship of musculoskeletal symptoms with weight of backpack in tehran secondary school students. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed in the city of tehran in 2009. two hundred thirteen students partici­pated in study. nordic musculoskeletal questionnaire was used, asking about complaints of back, neck, and/or shoulders...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate musculoskeletal symptom prevalence in university hospital nurses and explore the relation between musculoskeletal symptom prevalence and work related factors. METHODS A structured questionnaire was conducted with 620 nurses in a university hospital to look into the characters of responsibility and musculoskeletal symptom prevalence. The ...

Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are a major cause of work-related disability and lost-time illnesses for many occupational groups. This study determined the prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms among young construction workers. A symptom and job factors survey was self-administered to 996 construction apprentices. Prevalence was determined by the percent of positive responses to musculoskele...

BACKGROUND Gulf veterans report medically unexplained symptoms more frequently than non-Gulf veterans did. We examined whether Gulf and non-Gulf veterans could be distinguished by their patterns of symptom reporting. METHOD A k-means cluster analysis was applied to 500 randomly sampled veterans from each of three United Kingdom military cohorts of veterans; those deployed to the Gulf conflict...

BACKGROUND There is a lack of knowledge about the pattern of symptom reporting in the general population as most research focuses on specific diseases or symptoms. The number of musculoskeletal pain sites is a strong predictor for disability pensioning and, hence, is considered to be an important dimension in symptom reporting. The simple method of counting symptoms might also be applicable to ...

Current trends in the development of personalized medicine dictate need to interpret chronic pain as a multifactorial biopsychosocial phenomenon. A comprehensive integrated approach management patients with includes nosological diagnostics, assessment factors that determine persistence and comorbid pathology, use necessary pharmacological non-pharmacological methods treatment. Currently, primar...

OBJECTIVES To describe the presenting symptoms of SLE in primary care using the Clinical Practice Research Database (CPRD) and to calculate the time from symptom presentation to SLE diagnosis. METHODS Incident cases of SLE were identified from the CPRD between 2000 and 2012. Presenting symptoms were identified from the medical records of cases in the 5 years before diagnosis and grouped using...