According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 150 musculoskeletal disorders typically fall within four categories. Treatment for a musculoskeletal disorder may vary, depending on the symptoms ...

Work-related musculoskeletal disorders often develop in jobs requiring physical activity but can also occur in people who sit for extended periods or perform repetitive hand motions. Workplace ...

Musculoskeletal disorders encompass a wide spectrum of conditions such as osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, sarcopenia, and degenerative disc diseases. As individuals age, these disorders become ...

After exclusion of duplicates, papers in non-English languages and papers that covered non-relevant topics from the ca 26,000 titles retrieved through the computerized data base search, approximately ...

The less commonly discussed forms of musculoskeletal disorder are on the rise, and are set to affect twice as many people in the next 30 years, new research predicts. This category of "other" ...

Musculoskeletal disorders affect the bones, joints, muscles, and connective tissue. Many musculoskeletal disorders may occur in children, and some types are more common than others. Musculoskeletal ...

An estimated 126.6 million Americans (one in two adults) are affected by a musculoskeletal condition -- comparable to the total percentage of Americans living with a chronic lung or heart condition -- ...

A category of musculoskeletal disorders of our joints, muscles, bones, ligaments, tendons, and spine are on the rise, and a new forecast is as many as 1.06 billion people—up from 464 million—will be ...

The prevalence and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) of MSDs in PMW have significantly increased, with OA and lower back pain as leading contributors. High-income regions, such as North America, ...

In the present review on musculoskeletal disorders in computer work, a main inclusion criterion was that the disorders had to be documented by some sort of physical examination, and not solely based ...