Leon Straker

TL;DR: 11 recommendations for MSK pain care are identified to ensure care is patient centred, screen for red flag conditions, assess psychosocial factors, use imaging selectively, undertake a physical examination, monitor patient progress, and provide education/information to improve the quality of care.

TL;DR: Evaluated head, neck and shoulder postures of office workers with and without symptoms in these regions, in their actual work environments showed trends for increased head tilt and neck flexion postures in the symptomatic subjects, compared to the asymptomatic subjects.

TL;DR: Office work is characterised by sustained sedentary time and contributes significantly to overall sedentary exposure of office workers.

TL;DR: Investigating sitting postures of asymptomatic individuals and nonspecific chronic low back pain (NS-CLBP) patients (pooled and subclassified) and evaluating the importance of subclassification revealed that patients classified with an active extension pattern sat more lordotic at the symptomatic lower lumbar spine, whereas patients with a flexion patterns sat more kyphotic, when compared with healthy controls.

TL;DR: Findings of the study provide evidence that sub-MVC are preferable for amplitude normalisation when assessing EMG signals of trunk muscles between-days when compared to MVC.