Prevalence and incidence of musculoskeletal extremity complaints in children and adolescents. A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is difficult to gain an overview of musculoskeletal extremity complaints in childhood although this is essential to develop evidence-based prevention and treatment strategies. The objectives of this systematic review were therefore to describe the prevalence and incidence of musculoskeletal extremity complaints in children and adolescents in both general and clinical populations in relation to age, anatomical site and mode of onset.

Methods

MEDLINE and EMBASE were electronically searched; risk of bias was assessed; and data extraction was individually performed by two authors.

Results

In total, 19 general population studies and three clinical population studies were included with children aged 0-19 years. For most of the analyses, a division between youn

SUBMITTER: Fuglkjær S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5648427 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature