Critical Life Changes and Neck/Shoulder Pain. A Connection?

Researchers writing in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health say that “Life events and critical life changes are of importance for the risk of neck/shoulder pain…”

Skillgate E, Vingard E, Josephson M, Theorell T, Alfredsson L. Life events and the risk of low back and neck/shoulder pain of the kind people are seeking care for: results from the MUSIC-Norrtalje case-control study. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2007 Apr;61(4):356-61.

The researchers concluded: “Life events and critical life changes are of importance for the risk of neck/shoulder pain of the kind that people are seeking care for. The study provides useful information for clinical practice and for future aetiological research on neck/shoulder pain.”

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