Musculoskeletal Disorders Impact Factor
Every day, you use your muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints to lift and carry objects, sit, stand, walk, move and work in a variety of ways. However, these tasks, or how you perform them, can sometimes require too much effort for your body, because pain and result in a more serious injury called a
musculoskeletal disorder (MSD).
Back pain, shoulder pain, lumbar sprain, tendonitis, bursitis, these are some of the MSDs that can progressively develop with constant overexertion. They may be related to work, daily life or age, and affect joints, muscles and tendons.
MSDs first manifest themselves as discomfort and pain and may worsen if they are not resolved and can affect your
quality of life over the short and long term. There are several types of MSDs that can affect the upper and lower parts of your body. This section provides an overview of the most common types.
Musculoskeletal Disorder types
· Bursitis:
Inflammation of a synovial bursa, a sort of cushion that separates tendons or muscles from the bone surface and allows for smooth gliding.
· Epicondylitis:
Inflammation of the wrist extensor tendons where they attach to the elbow. Lower
back pain Pain in the lower back.
· Tendinitis:
Inflammation of a tendon (an extension of a muscle that allows it to attach to the bone).
· Carpal tunnel syndrome: Compression or pinching of a nerve in a channel formed by bones and a wrist ligament on the palm side of the hand. Compression causes numbness or pain in the thumb, index finger and middle finger.
· Tenosynovitis: Tenosynovitis is that the simultaneous
inflammation of a tendon and therefore the surrounding synovial sheath.
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