Epidemiology of musculoskeletal disorders

Discordance between self-reported arthritis and musculoskeletal signs and symptoms in older women

Arthritis is a gendered disease where women have a higher prevalence and more disability than men with arthritis of the same age. Health survey data is a major source of information for monitoring of the burde...

Authors: TKT Lo, Lynne Parkinson, Michelle Cunich and Julie Byles

Prevalence of lumbar spondylosis and its association with low back pain among community-dwelling Japanese women

Lumbar spondylosis is more prevalent among the middle-aged and elderly, but few population-based studies have been conducted, especially in Japan. The purpose of this study was to explore the prevalence of lum...

Authors: Ritsu Tsujimoto, Yasuyo Abe, Kazuhiko Arima, Takayuki Nishimura, Masato Tomita, Akihiko Yonekura, Takashi Miyamoto, Shohei Matsubayashi, Natsumi Tanaka, Kiyoshi Aoyagi and Makoto Osaki

Gender differences in load carriage injuries of Australian army soldiers

With the removal of gender restrictions and the changing nature of warfare potentially increasing female soldier exposure to heavy military load carriage, the aim of this research was to determine relative ris...

Authors: Robin Marc Orr and Rodney Pope

Hyaline cartilage calcification of the first metatarsophalangeal joint is associated with osteoarthritis but independent of age and BMI

Hyaline cartilage calcification (CC) is associated with osteoarthritis (OA) in hip and knee joints. The first metatarsophalangeal joint (1^stMTPJ) is frequently affected by OA, but it is unclear if CC occurs in th...

Authors: Jan Hubert, Thelonius Hawellek, Sandra Hischke, Jessica Bertrand, Matthias Krause, Klaus Püschel, Wolfgang Rüther and Andreas Niemeier

Level of clinical evidence presented at the open and closed American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons annual meeting over 10 years (2005–2014)

The American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) annual scientific meetings are premier forums whereby orthopaedic surgeons are informed of the latest research advances in shoulder and elbow surgery. The purpos...

Authors: Jeffrey Kay, Muzammil Memon, Darren de SA, Nicole Simunovic, George S. Athwal, Asheesh Bedi and Olufemi R. Ayeni

Indication criteria for total hip or knee arthroplasty in osteoarthritis: a state-of-the-science overview

This systematic review gives an overview of guidelines and original publications as well as the evidence on which the currently proposed indication criteria are based. Until now such a state-of-the-science ove...

Authors: Maaike G. J. Gademan, Stefanie N. Hofstede, Thea P. M. Vliet Vlieland, Rob G. H. H. Nelissen and Perla J. Marang-van de Mheen

The Scottish Early Rheumatoid Arthritis (SERA) Study: an inception cohort and biobank

The Scottish Early Rheumatoid Arthritis (SERA) study is an inception cohort of rheumatoid (RA) and undifferentiated arthritis (UA) patients that aims to provide a contemporary description of phenotype and outc...

Authors: James Dale, Caron Paterson, Ann Tierney, Stuart H. Ralston, David M. Reid, Neil Basu, John Harvie, Neil D. McKay, Sarah Saunders, Hilary Wilson, Robin Munro, Ruth Richmond, Derek Baxter, Michael McMahon, John McLaren, Vinod Kumar…

Low back pain patterns over one year among 842 workers in the DPhacto study and predictors for chronicity based on repetitive measurements

Low back pain (LBP) occurrence and intensity are considered to fluctuate over time, requiring frequent repetitive assessments to capture its true time pattern. Text messages makes frequent reporting of LBP fea...

Authors: Julie Lagersted-Olsen, Hans Bay, Marie Birk Jørgensen, Andreas Holtermann and Karen Søgaard

Neuropathic pain in patients with rotator cuff tears

Recent studies have confirmed the existence of neuropathic pain (NeP) components in patients with musculoskeletal disorders. However, the presence of NeP in patients with rotator cuff tears has not been invest...

Authors: Tatsuki Karasugi, Junji Ide, Toshio Kitamura, Nobukazu Okamoto, Takuya Tokunaga and Hiroshi Mizuta

Time trends and risk factors for perioperative complications in total ankle arthroplasty: retrospective analysis using a national database in Japan

Total ankle arthroplasty (TAA) has become increasingly popular worldwide as an alternative to ankle arthrodesis for surgical treatment of end-stage ankle arthritis. The aim of this epidemiological study, using...

Authors: Takumi Matsumoto, Hideo Yasunaga, Hiroki Matsui, Kiyohide Fushimi, Naohiro Izawa, Tetsuro Yasui, Yuho Kadono and Sakae Tanaka

The impact of depression among chronic low back pain patients in Japan

Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is associated with significant disability and reductions in health related quality of life (HRQoL), which can negatively impact overall function and productivity. Depression is als...

Authors: Toshinaga Tsuji, Ko Matsudaira, Hiroki Sato and Jeffrey Vietri

Levels of serum estradiol and lifestyle factors related with bone mineral density in premenopausal Mexican women: a cross-sectional analysis

Many factors, such as heredity, ethnicity, nutrition and other lifestyle factors, have been related to bone mineral density in postmenopausal women. Additionally, bone mass has been significantly associated wi...

Authors: Gerardo Huitrón-Bravo, Edgar Denova-Gutiérrez, Juan O. Talavera, Carlos Moran-Villota, Juan Tamayo, Arianna Omaña-Covarrubias and Jorge Salmerón

Cross-cultural translation of the Lysholm knee score in Chinese and its validation in patients with anterior cruciate ligament injury

The Lysholm Knee Score (LKS) is widely used and is one of the most effective questionnaires employed to assess knee injuries. Although LKS has been translated into multiple languages, there is no Chinese versi...

Authors: W. Wang, L. Liu, X. Chang, Z. Y. Jia, J. Z. Zhao and W. D. Xu

Kinematic analysis of work-related musculoskeletal loading of trunk among dentists in Germany

In Germany, about 86.7 % of the dentists have stated to suffer from pain in the neck and shoulder region. These findings are predominantly based on surveys. Therefore the objective of this study is to conduct ...

Authors: Daniela Ohlendorf, Christina Erbe, Imke Hauck, Jennifer Nowak, Ingo Hermanns, Dirk Ditchen, Rolf Ellegast and David A. Groneberg

Associations between musculoskeletal pain and work-related factors among public service sector computer workers in Kaunas County, Lithuania

Information technologies in occupational activities have been developing very rapid. Epidemiological studies have shown that musculoskeletal disorders are widely prevalent among employees working with a comput...

Authors: Gintare Kaliniene, Ruta Ustinaviciene, Lina Skemiene, Vidmantas Vaiciulis and Paulius Vasilavicius

Linking Swedish health data registers to establish a research database and a shared decision-making tool in hip replacement

Sweden offers a unique opportunity to researchers to construct comprehensive databases that encompass a wide variety of healthcare related data. Statistics Sweden and the National Board of Health and Welfare c...

Authors: Peter Cnudde, Ola Rolfson, Szilard Nemes, Johan Kärrholm, Clas Rehnberg, Cecilia Rogmark, John Timperley and Göran Garellick

Patient’s experience with subcutaneous and oral methotrexate for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

Despite the prominent position of methotrexate (MTX) in Rheumatoid Arthiris (RA) therapeutics, its real-world effectiveness may be influenced by a relative lack of tolerability or other side effects that physi...

Authors: J. R. Curtis, F. Xie, D. Mackey, N. Gerber, A. Bharat, T. Beukelman, K. G. Saag, L. Chen, B. Nowell and S. Ginsberg

Sex and gender disparity in pathology, disability, referral pattern, and wait time for surgery in workers with shoulder injury

The role of sex as an important biological determinant of vulnerability to sustaining injury and gender as a social determinate of access to resources, referral for medical care and perceived disability remain...

Authors: Helen Razmjou, Sandra Lincoln, Iona Macritchie, Robin R. Richards, Danielle Medeiros and Amr Elmaraghy

Illness perceptions of gout patients and the use of allopurinol in primary care: baseline findings from a prospective cohort study

Patients’ perceptions of their illness are dynamic and can directly influence aspects of management. Our aim was to examine the illness perceptions of gout patients in UK primary care and associations with all...

Authors: Ciaran P. Walsh, James A. Prior, Priyanka Chandratre, John Belcher, Christian D. Mallen and Edward Roddy

Severity of back pain may influence choice and order of practitioner consultations across conventional, allied and complementary health care: a cross-sectional study of 1851 mid-age Australian women

Back pain is a common, disabling and costly disorder for which patients often consult with a wide range of health practitioners. Unfortunately, no research to date has directly examined the association between...

Authors: David Sibbritt, Romy Lauche, Tobias Sundberg, Wenbo Peng, Craig Moore, Alex Broom, Emma Kirby and Jon Adams

Swedish Sonographers’ perceptions of ergonomic problems at work and their suggestions for improvement

Sonographers’ perceptions of ergonomic and work-related pain problems at work have so far mostly been researched in quantitative studies by questionnaires. There is a need of experience-based research to deepe...

Authors: Jenny Gemark Simonsen and Gunvor Gard

Association between activity limitations and pain in patients scheduled for total knee arthroplasty

Historically, persons scheduled for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) have reported severe pain with low demand activities such as walking, but recent data suggests that TKA recipients may have less preoperative p...

Authors: Ilana M. Usiskin, Heidi Y. Yang, Bhushan R. Deshpande, Jamie E. Collins, Griffin L. Michl, Savannah R. Smith, Kristina M. Klara, Faith Selzer, Jeffrey N. Katz and Elena Losina

Opting to wear prismatic spectacles was associated with reduced neck pain in dental personnel: a longitudinal cohort study

The aim of this study was to investigate effects on perceived exertion, work ability self-reported neck pain and clinically diagnosed conditions in the neck, of an intervention with prismatic spectacles among ...

Authors: Agneta Lindegård, Catarina Nordander, Helene Jacobsson and Inger Arvidsson

Injuries in professional male football players in Kosovo: a descriptive epidemiological study

The incidence and severity of football-related injuries has been found to differ strongly between professional leagues from different countries. The aims of this study were to record the incidence, type and se...

Authors: I. Shalaj, F. Tishukaj, N. Bachl, H. Tschan, B. Wessner and R. Csapo

Factors predicting pain and early discontinuation of tumour necrosis factor-α-inhibitors in people with rheumatoid arthritis: results from the British society for rheumatology biologics register

We examined pain levels in 2 cohorts assembled from the British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register (BSRBR), and investigated which factors predicted Bodily Pain scores and discontinuation of TNFα-inhi...

Authors: Daniel F. McWilliams and David A. Walsh

Determinants of patient satisfaction and their willingness to return after primary total hip replacement: a cross-sectional study

Surveys of patient satisfaction and their willingness to return can be used for the optimization of processes, improving their quality, and increasing the satisfaction and loyalty in customers. This study look...

Authors: Tom Schaal, Tonio Schoenfelder, Joerg Klewer and Joachim Kugler

Symptomatic discoid lateral meniscus: a clinical and arthroscopic study in a Chinese population

Discoid lateral meniscus (DLM) is relatively common in East Asia..Symptomatic discoid lateral meniscus (SDLM) is an important indication for knee arthroscopic surgery. However, studies investigating SDLM are r...

Authors: Gang Chen, Zhong Zhang and Jian Li

Incidence and excess mortality of hip fracture in young adults: a nationwide population-based cohort study

This study assessed the incidence and excess mortality of hip fractures among inpatients aged 20–40 years in a nationwide population database in Taiwan.

Authors: Tsai-Hsueh Leu, Wei-Chun Chang, Jeff Chien-Fu Lin, Chi Lo, Wen-Miin Liang, Yu-Jun Chang, Dann-Pyng Shih, Cheng-Chun Wu, Chi-Fung Cheng and Sy-Jye Wei

Factors associated with diagnostic stage of hip osteoarthritis due to acetabular dysplasia among Japanese female patients: a cross-sectional study

In Japan, the majority of hip osteoarthritis (OA) was caused by acetabular dysplasia, and about 90 % of patients were female. The present study focused on Japanese female patients with hip OA due to acetabular...

Authors: Satoko Ohfuji, Seiya Jingushi, Kyoko Kondo, Muroto Sofue, Moritoshi Itoman, Tadami Matsumoto, Yoshiki Hamada, Hiroyuki Shindo, Yoshio Takatori, Harumoto Yamada, Yuji Yasunaga, Hiroshi Ito, Satoshi Mori, Ichiro Owan, Genji Fujii, Hirotsugu Ohashi…

Risk factors for back pain in marines; a prospective cohort study

It is recognised that back pain (BP) is a debilitating medical problem in the soldier community, which limits operational readiness as well as work ability. As such, identification of risk factors is a necessi...

Authors: Andreas Monnier, Mats Djupsjöbacka, Helena Larsson, Kjell Norman and Björn O. Äng

Prevalence and its risk factors for low back pain among operation and maintenance personnel in wind farms

With the increasingly severe energy shortage and climate change problems, developing wind power has become a key energy development strategy and an inevitable choice to protect the ecological environment world...

Authors: Ning Jia, Tao Li, Shuangqiu Hu, Xinhe Zhu, Kang Sun, Long Yi, Qiong Zhang, Guilian Luo, Yuzhen Li, Xueyan Zhang, Yongen Gu and Zhongxu Wang

Associations of LBX1 gene and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis susceptibility: a meta-analysis based on 34,626 subjects

The results of studies investigating the association between the ladybird homeobox 1 (LBX1) gene polymorphisms and the risk of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) are not all the same. As such, we performed a m...

Authors: Yaqin Cao, Jikang Min, Qianghua Zhang, Heng Li and Haidong Li

Scoliosis epidemiology is not similar all over the world: a study from a scoliosis school screening on Chongming Island (China)

School scoliosis screening has been carried out around the world. The screen program has never been performed on Chongming Island, the third largest island in China and characterized less population exchange w...

Authors: Qing Du, Xuan Zhou, Stefano Negrini, Nan Chen, Xiaoyan Yang, Juping Liang and Kun Sun

Hospitalization for musculoskeletal disorders in rheumatoid arthritis patients: a population-based study

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients failing disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) may undergo anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor (anti-TNF) therapy. Using the Quebec health services administrative databases, w...

Authors: Marina Amaral de Ávila Machado, Sasha Bernatsky, Louis Bessette, Hacene Nedjar and Elham Rahme

Few geographic and socioeconomic variations exist in primary total shoulder arthroplasty: a multi-level study of Australian registry data

Associations between socioeconomic position (SEP) and the uptake of primary total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) is not well understood in the Australian population, thus potentially limiting equitable allocation...

Authors: Sharon L. Brennan-Olsen, Richard S. Page, Stephen E. Lane, Michelle Lorimer, Rachelle Buchbinder, Richard H. Osborne, Julie A. Pasco, Anita E. Wluka, Kerrie M. Sanders, Peter R. Ebeling and Stephen E. Graves

The prevalence of giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica in a UK primary care population

To update community-based prevalence values for Polymyalgia Rheumatic (PMR) and Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) using case record review supplemented by population survey and subsequent clinical review.

Authors: Max Yates, Karly Graham, Richard Arthur Watts and Alexander James MacGregor

The association between seeking financial compensation and injury recovery following motor vehicle related orthopaedic trauma

Motor vehicle related moderate-severe orthopaedic trauma has a major impact on the burden of injury. In Australia, all states and territories provide access to financial compensation following injury in a moto...

Authors: Darnel F. Murgatroyd, Ian A. Harris, Yvonne Tran and Ian D. Cameron

The incidence and worsening of newly diagnosed low back pain in a population of young male military recruits

Low back pain (LBP) is a leading cause of referral to occupational health clinics and of consequent work absenteeism. There is lack of data concerning ages 18–21. The objective of our study was to evaluate the...

Authors: Shlomo Moshe, Oren Zack, Aharon S. Finestone, Menashe Mishal, Noa Segal, Dan Slodownik and Yaron Yagev

Study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate a referral strategy for axial spondyloarthritis in young primary care patients with chronic low back pain; an impact study

Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is a disabling inflammatory joint disease with chronic low back pain (CLBP) as leading symptom. Recognizing axSpA in the large amount of CLBP patients is difficult for general p...

Authors: Lonneke van Hoeven, Yvonne Vergouwe, Bart W. Koes, Johanna M. W. Hazes and Angelique E. A. M. Weel

Developing and testing a measure of consultation-based reassurance for people with low back pain in primary care: a cross-sectional study

Reassurance from physicians is commonly recommended in guidelines for the management of low back pain (LBP), but the process of reassurance and its impact on patients is poorly researched.

Authors: Nicola Holt and Tamar Pincus

Predictors and consequences of long-term pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain: a longitudinal follow-up study

Pelvic girdle pain (PGP) is a multifactorial condition, which can be mentally and physically compromising both during and after pregnancy. However, long-term pregnancy-related PGP has been poorly investigated....

Authors: Helen Elden, Annelie Gutke, Gunilla Kjellby-Wendt, Monika Fagevik-Olsen and Hans-Christian Ostgaard

Low back and neck and shoulder pain in members and non-members of adolescents’ sports clubs: the Finnish Health Promoting Sports Club (FHPSC) study

The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of self-reported low back pain (LBP) and neck and shoulder pain (NSP), and the related factors in members and non-members of adolescents’ sports cl...

Authors: M. Rossi, K. Pasanen, S. Kokko, L. Alanko, O. J. Heinonen, R. Korpelainen, K. Savonen, H. Selänne, T. Vasankari, L. Kannas, U. Kujala, J. Villberg and J. Parkkari

Body size from birth to middle age and the risk of hip and knee replacement

Information regarding the effects of body size in childhood and early adulthood on the risk of hip and knee replacement in later life is inconsistent. We aimed to assess their effect, taking into account body ...

Authors: Bette Liu, Angela Balkwill, Jane Green and Valerie Beral

Clinically important improvement thresholds for Harris Hip Score and its ability to predict revision risk after primary total hip arthroplasty

Some aspects of validity are missing for the Harris Hip Score (HHS). Our objective was to examine the clinically meaningful change thresholds, responsiveness and the predictive ability of the HHS questionnaire.

Authors: Jasvinder A. Singh, Cathy Schleck, Scott Harmsen and David Lewallen

A joint effort over a period of time: factors affecting use of urate-lowering therapy for long-term treatment of gout

Although international guidelines encourage urate lowering therapy (ULT) for people who have more than two attacks of gout, only 30 % of patients are prescribed it and only 40 % of those adhere to the treatmen...

Authors: Jane C. Richardson, Jennifer Liddle, Christian D. Mallen, Edward Roddy, Samantha Hider, Suman Prinjha and Sue Ziebland

A questionnaire to identify patellofemoral pain in the community: an exploration of measurement properties

Community-based studies of patellofemoral pain (PFP) need a questionnaire tool that discriminates between those with and those without the condition. To overcome these issues, we have designed a self-report qu...

Authors: Paola Dey, Michael Callaghan, Neil Cook, Ruth Sephton, Chris Sutton, Elaine Hough, Jonathan James, Rukhtam Saqib and James Selfe

Addressing obesity in the management of knee and hip osteoarthritis – weighing in from an economic perspective

Obesity is one of the only modifiable risk factors for both incidence and progression of Osteoarthritis (OA). So there is increasing interest from a public health perspective in addressing obesity in the manag...

Authors: Anna Flego, Michelle M. Dowsey, Peter F. M. Choong and Marj Moodie

Erratum to: Predictors of return to work following motor vehicle related orthopaedic trauma

Authors: Darnel F. Murgatroyd, Ian A. Harris, Yvonne Tran and Ian D. Cameron

What have we learned from ten years of trajectory research in low back pain?

Non-specific low back pain (LBP) is often categorised as acute, subacute or chronic by focusing on the duration of the current episode. However, more than twenty years ago this concept was challenged by a reco...

Authors: Alice Kongsted, Peter Kent, Iben Axen, Aron S. Downie and Kate M. Dunn

The impact of work related physical activity and leisure physical activity on the risk and prognosis of neck pain – a population based cohort study on workers

The effect of physical activity on risk and prognosis for neck pain has been studied earlier with inconclusive results. There is a need for large prospective studies on the subject. The aim of this study was t...

Authors: Lina Palmlöf, Lena W. Holm, Lars Alfredsson, Cecilia Magnusson, Eva Vingård and Eva Skillgate