The Burden and Determinants of Neck Pain in the General Population
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States) · University Health Network · +10 more institutions
Abstract
To undertake a best evidence synthesis of the published evidence on the burden and determinants of neck pain and its associated disorders in the general population. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: The evidence on burden and determinants of neck has not previously been summarized.
The Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders performed a systematic search and critical review of literature published between 1980 and 2006 to assemble the best evidence on neck pain. Studies meeting criteria for scientific validity were included in a best evidence synthesis.
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 49.73
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 151
Authors
13- SHSheilah Hogg‐JohnsonCorresponding
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States), University Health Network, Toronto Western Hospital, Institute for Work & Health
- GVGabrielle van der Velde
University of California, Irvine, Institute for Work & Health
- LCLinda Carroll
University of Alberta, Western Research Institute
- LWLena W. Holm
Karolinska Institutet, Stanford University
- JDJ. David Cassidy
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, University Health Network, Toronto Western Hospital
Topics & keywords
- Medicine
- Neck pain
- Population
- Incidence (geometry)
- Physical therapy
- Alternative medicine
- Pathology
- Environmental health
- Good health and well-being