The musculoskeletal system is a system of muscles, joints, tendons, and ligaments that provides movement, form, strength, and protection. Various muscle and bone types work together in this body ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . U.S. health care spending exceeds $4 trillion. Operating within the complex health care system are models tasked ...

Humans have a distinctive skeleton, and are the only bipedal great apes (the great ape species are bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and humans). While the evolution of the human skeleton ...

Last week’s column was about the link between what people eat and low back pain. Does what we eat affect other musculoskeletal conditions as well? The short answer is yes. Physiatry is a medical ...

Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) are conditions that affect muscles, bones, and joints and occur in the workplace. Implementing workplace controls can help reduce the risk of WMSDs. The ...

If you ask any interventional cardiologist about the musculoskeletal effects of their career on their body, you will likely hear ample stories about colleagues suffering from pain, missing days of ...

Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) are both common and costly. In fact, MSDs are the single largest category of workplace injuries and are responsible for almost 30 percent of all workers’ compensation ...

If you are an arthropod, you’ve come to the wrong place. About 98 percent of all animals are invertebrates, meaning they have no backbone or internal skeletal system, and humans happen to be in the ...