Health
Sitting tied to raised risk of death from 14 diseases
(HealthDay)—Get up off of the couch: Sitting too much may kill you even if you exercise regularly.
Jul 2, 2018
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News tagged with musculoskeletal disorders
Medications
Duloxetine added to multimodal pain management reduces opioid use after knee replacement
A study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) found that the antidepressant duloxetine reduced the use of opioid medication when added to a multimodal pain management regimen after knee replacement surgery. ...
May 11, 2022
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Change in osteoarthritis care needed urgently, NZ health practitioners say
A group of New Zealand health practitioners is calling on the Government to change its approach to the way it cares for people with osteoarthritis, and to do so urgently.
Jun 30, 2022
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Diabetes
Increased work disability in diabetes due to comorbidity
(HealthDay)—Among individuals with diabetes, the increased risk of work disability is mainly due to comorbid mental, musculoskeletal, and circulatory disorders, according to a study published online Aug. 6 in Diabetes Care.
Aug 12, 2015
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
How to care for your sore hands and wrists when your life is online
We are back to pounding keyboards and swiping phones for another year. But with so much of today's learning, working and socializing happening via devices, hand and wrist injuries are both common and hard to recover from.
Feb 22, 2022
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Health
Low back and neck pain tops U.S. health spending
Seeing a physician or other health specialist for low back and neck pain? You're not alone, according to a new scientific study.
Mar 3, 2020
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Health
Spending too much time sitting down linked to around 50,000 deaths per year in the UK
Spending large amounts of time sitting or lounging around during the day is linked to around 50,000 deaths per year in the UK and the NHS spends in excess of £0.7bn per year treating the health consequences, suggests research ...
Mar 25, 2019
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Health
Smartphones: Are they just a pain in the neck?
A large majority of the world's 3.4 billion smartphone users are putting their necks at risk every time they send a text, according to new research involving the University of South Australia.
Jan 16, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
More than four hours of daily smartphone use associated with health risks for adolescents
In a new study of more than 50,000 Korean adolescents, those who used a smartphone for more than four hours per day had higher rates of adverse mental health and substance use. Jin-Hwa Moon and Jong Ho Cha of Hanyang University ...
Dec 6, 2023
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Kirigami inspired device to monitor joint motion for sedentary workers
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China has developed a kirigami-inspired device to monitor joint motion for sedentary workers. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group ...
