Articles related toMusculoskeletal Medicine and Pain

The authors sought to determine whether the accurate localization of transverse process landmarks influences overall accuracy of asymmetry determination in 3rd-year osteopathic medical students evaluating covered lumbar spine models.

The authors present the case of a 49-year-old man with an occupation involving repetitive overhead motion at the shoulder who was found to have a nontraumatic first rib fracture.

Low back pain is the most common cause of work related disability, and health care practitioners are not immune. To examine the frequency and pattern of musculoskeletal dysfunction induced by performing a surgical procedure and to quantify the improvement after ergonomic interventions, the authors examined 8 residents for the amount of somatic dysfunction induced by performing ophthalmic microsurgery.

Concussion is common in athletes, but what variables influence time to recovery? Children and adolescent athletes’ recovery times were analyzed in this retrospective medical record review.

Of all baseball players, pitchers spend the most days on the disabled list because of injuries. The Spencer technique, which is often used in professional baseball training rooms, may improve performance and decrease injury rates.

More patients with pectus excavatum are seeking evaluation now that additional information and treatment options are available. Vacuum bell treatment, for example, is now approved in the United States and may be an appropriate conservative treatment for younger patients.

Physicians’ understanding of foot and ankle injury anatomy, diagnoses, and management will allow athletes—the primary population that presents with such injuries—to more efficiently return to competitive activity and avoid long term disability.

The author provides an overview of the symptoms, comorbidities, current treatment options, and clinical criteria associated with the guiding standard of care for hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.