Hazardous manual handling is the biggest cause of workplace injuries in Victoria, with WorkSafe accepting 48,355 injury ...

MY daughter Laura came home from Baguio with her friends last weekend on a shuttle van built to seat 15 people. Fifteen souls — four shoulder to shoulder, in three rows, with the front row taking one ...

A construction worker’s physical body is one of their greatest assets in this line of work, which is why it’s critical to ...

Statistics show first-cousin marriages roughly doubles the risk of congenital defects and genetic disorders in children.

Synopsis: Every month, The Straits Times helps you make sense of health matters that affect you. Problems affecting bones, joints, muscles, and tendons are the leading contributor of disability among ...

Musculoskeletal disorders affect over a billion people globally and cost Singapore $3.5 billion annually due to lost productivity, impacting its key resource: its people. Prevention is challenging due ...

Objective To investigate the effectiveness of cryotherapy on pain intensity, range of motion (ROM), swelling and function in the postoperative care of musculoskeletal disorders. Design Systematic ...

Living with multiple sclerosis (MS) often means dealing with different kinds of pain — some caused by damage to nerves, some by muscle stiffness or spasms, and some related to changes in how the body ...

We did not find enough good‐quality evidence to draw reliable conclusions about the benefits and risks of different work-break interventions for preventing musculoskeletal symptoms and disorders ...

Musculoskeletal injuries represent a significant challenge for military readiness, accounting for roughly 95% of all military injuries and serving as the leading cause of medical visits, limited duty, ...

Novel research shows that in approximately one third of countries and territories worldwide, population aging was the largest contributor to the growing burden of musculoskeletal disorders from 1990 ...