Musculoskeletal care is under growing pressures, from rising demand and flat reimbursement to care delays and payer denials. Below, six orthopedic leaders share what they wish payers better understood ...

3 Glen Sather Sports Medicine Clinic, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Background Preprofessional dancers partake in rigorous training and have high injury prevalence. Attempts to identify risk ...

Objective To determine the prevalence and incidence of musculoskeletal injury in amateur and professional golfers, and to identify common injury sites and factors associated with increased injury ...

Musculoskeletal disorders -- which affect muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones, and joints -- can severely affect individuals' physical and mental health, and they're especially prevalent among aging ...

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" ...

Yoga causes musculoskeletal pain in 10 percent of people and exacerbates 21 percent of existing injuries, research shows. The findings come from the first prospective study to investigate injuries ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Obesity is more than just a number on a scale; it is a complex, chronic disease characterized by an excess of ...

Injury is the most common cause of musculoskeletal pain. Other causes include arthritis, overuse, poor posture, and referred pain that’s radiated from another area. Treatments such as medications and ...

Musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause describes a range of bone, joint, and muscular changes that women may experience during and after the transition to menopause. The natural decreases in estrogen ...