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Musculoskeletal symptoms were assessed in 33 patients with familial and 36 patients with nonfamilial type IIa hypercholesterolemia and compared to 33 healthy controls. Significant joint pain was reported by 47.8% of the patients with hypercholesterolemia vs 25.8% of the control group. Pain in the hyperlipidemic patients was significantly more prevalent in ankles and feet compared to the control group. The pain was not due to local effects of xanthoma, and was not accompanied by symptoms of inflammation or systemic rheumatic symptoms such as morning stiffness.
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PMID:Musculoskeletal manifestations in patients with hypercholesterolemia. 275 68

A case of severe infection following pudendal anesthesia is presented. The probable spread of the infection to the subgluteal space and the complications are discussed. Musculoskeletal symptoms arising in the hip area and the pelvis during the early postpartum period pose a challenging diagnostic problem. When these symptoms are accompanied by fever and pain, the possibility of a severe infection with possible abscess in the subgluteal or retropsoas space must be considered. The treatment consists of prompt surgical drainage and appropriate antibiotics.
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PMID:Severe infection following pudendal anesthesia. 611 May 90

Musculoskeletal symptoms developing during the treatment of thyroid disease were studied in 150 patients; 17 developed a symptom complex of early morning stiffness together with shoulder girdle pain and weakness; similar symptoms were seen in only 3 of 100 controls. A prospective study of 16 patients with recent onset rheumatoid arthritis followed during the first 6 months of penicillamine therapy showed no changes in thyroid function tests. It is suggested that changing or abnormal thyroid status may precipitate or exacerbate musculoskeletal disease. Finally, in a retrospective study of 26 patients with both thyroid disease and rheumatoid arthritis, 4 patients had a simultaneous onset of both myxoedema and rheumatoid arthritis, the activity of which was greatly improved by correction of the hypothyroid state.
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PMID:Thyroid dysfunction and rheumatic diseases. 697 2

The effects of overhead work were studied by comparing orchard farmers' musculoskeletal symptoms while bagging pears with those same symptoms while bagging apples. The subjects were 52 Japanese female farmers, who were examined twice an evening in late June for bagging pears, and during another evening of late July for bagging apples, when each task had been almost finished. They were questioned about musculoskeletal complaints of stiffness and pain during each job, and examined for muscle tenderness and pain from joint movement. Arm elevation angles during the work were measured for each type of bagging. The prevalence of stiffness and pain in the neck and shoulder, muscle tenderness in the shoulder regions, and pain in neck motion were found to be significantly higher when bagging pears than apples. Musculoskeletal symptoms of parts other than the neck and shoulder did not differ between the two types of bagging. The working posture of elevating the arm more than 90 degrees was assumed to account for 75% of the time bagging pears, against 40% for bagging apples. Overhead work requiring arm elevation and head extension was considered to be closely related with shoulder-neck disorders among farmers.
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PMID:Overhead work and shoulder-neck pain in orchard farmers harvesting pears and apples. 772 97

Musculoskeletal symptoms in pear and apple orchard workers were studied in relation to working postures, particularly arm elevation and head extension. The same forty-six female workers were examined three times; in May while thinning pears, in June while bagging pears, and in July while bagging apples. Musculoskeletal symptoms in the neck and shoulders were predominant in thinning and bagging pears when compared with bagging apples. When thinning pears, there was a significantly higher prevalence of complaints of stiffness and pain in the neck and shoulders, pain in the upper and lower back, muscle tenderness in the shoulders and forearm, and decreased back muscle power. When bagging pears, there was a significant difference in complaints of stiffness and pain in the neck and shoulders, muscle tenderness in the shoulders, and pain in motion of the neck joint. Pear tasks require more arm elevation and head extension than apple tasks. The working postures of arm elevation and head extension were considered to be a dominant causative factor in shoulder-neck disorders of the workers examined. The low back pain from thinning pears may be related with continuous backward bending of the back associated with the thinning work.
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PMID:[Musculoskeletal symptoms and working postures in pear and apple orchard workers]. 827 91

Six-hundred-seven employees in 3 metal industry plants were studied for depressive and distress symptoms, musculoskeletal symptoms, and findings in the musculo-skeletal system made by a physiotherapist. Measurements were made 3 times at 5-year intervals. The mean distress and depressive symptom scores of the first 2 examinations predicted the change in several musculo-skeletal symptom measures during the second 5-year period, when the effects of age and occupational class were accounted for in multiple regression analysis. They also predicted the development in clinical musculoskeletal findings in men. The proportions of variance explained by the depressive and distress symptoms were modest in magnitude. Analogous analyses were made with reference to the reverse temporal sequence: musculoskeletal disorders were considered as predating the development in depressive and distress symptoms. The musculoskeletal symptom scores were associated with the change in the stress symptoms in men, as did the clinical findings in the neck-shoulder and low back regions. None of the musculoskeletal morbidity scores predicted the change in the depressive symptoms in either sex. We conclude that depressive symptoms predict future musculoskeletal disorders, but not vice versa, whereas the association of stress symptoms and musculoskeletal disorders is reciprocal.
Pain 1993 Apr
PMID:Depressive and distress symptoms as predictors of low back pain, neck-shoulder pain, and other musculoskeletal morbidity: a 10-year follow-up of metal industry employees. 831 95

Five hundred and fifty-two care-workers aged 20 to 60 years, who worked at six custodial-care homes, were examined to clarify the relationship between subjective pain and tenderness in the low back, together with the factors affecting occupational low back pain. Subjects who were diagnosed as having tenderness in the low back by one medical practitioner at the time of health examinations, and those who reported the presence of low back pain in self-rating questionnaires were defined as those with "objective" and "subjective" low back pain, respectively. Complaints concerning workloads and daily life, as well as musculoskeletal and systemic symptoms, were inquired of in the self-rating questionnaires; the former complaints were compiled into four factors representing "environmental load at work," "physical load at work," "mental load at work," and "daily life" by the factor analysis. The corresponding rates in subjective and objective low back pains were 67.0% in 188 male care workers and 70.9% in 364 female care workers. In males and females, "physical load at work" was positively related to subjective low back pain (P < 0.05) with the use of the multiple logistic regression analysis including all the causal and confounding factors. Musculoskeletal symptoms in females were also positively related to subjective and objective low back pain (P < 0.05). These data suggest that subjective low back pain clearly reflects the problem of occupational low back pain as a whole, and that low back pain is mainly related to the physical load at work in care workers.
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PMID:[Subjective pain and tenderness in low back among care workers in relation to work load and daily life]. 1055 98

Musculoskeletal symptoms are common and traditional family remedies are available in most households to reduce pain and inflammation. Most of these have only anecdotal evidence and have not stood up to scientific scrutiny. However, some effective treatments such as aspirin have borne the test of time. With adequate trials more effective herbal therapies may be confirmed, but currently such popular treatments as devils claw and nettles have yet to have confirmation of benefit. Although not herbal, cartilage derivatives are also currently popular alternative medicines and have increasing evidence of beneficial effect.
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PMID:Herbal therapy in rheumatology. 1167 18

The risk for the development of musculoskeletal disorders and associated conditions in clerical and office workers is well documented. The majority of work injury prevention programs for this population were single-faceted (education, workstation redesign, or task modification) and yielded both positive and negative findings. This pilot study was conducted with 16 full-time clerical and office workers at a small private college. In a randomized control trial, the intervention group received four hours of individualized training through a multi-faceted injury prevention program. Between group differences in musculoskeletal symptom frequency and intensity and perceived stress and energy levels existed, although were statistically insignificant. There was a statistically significant decrease in Lower Back ache/pain from pre to post measures for the intervention group.
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PMID:A comprehensive work injury prevention program with clerical and office workers: phase I. 1450 Oct 96

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to evaluate musculoskeletal symptoms among female members of the nursing personnel. The sample consisted of 105 female nursing aides and technicians who were working at a university hospital with highly dependent patients. The questionnaire was composed of items on demographic and job-factor information and the symptom section was a modification of the "Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire". In this study, 93% of the health workers reported at least one musculoskeletal symptom in the previous 12 months. The highest prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders was in the following anatomical areas: low back (59%), shoulders (40%), knees (33.3%) and neck (28.6%). As a result of musculoskeletal pain, 29.5% of the respondents reported missing work and 47.6% reported having had an appointment to see a physician in the previous 12 months. Limited experience on the job and in the present unit were also observed among those who had more frequent complaints of pain in the knees (p=0.0272) and low back pain (p=0.0332), respectively. However, hand/wrist pain occurred more often among the participants with the higher numbers of weekly worked hours (OR=3.72:1.26<OR<11.12; p=0.0141).
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PMID:[Self-reported musculoskeletal symptoms among nursing personnel]. 1497 64


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