title: [Musculoskeletal complaints in a population. Occurrence and localization].
abstract: Musculo-skeletal complaints are widespread. In a population survey in Ullensaker, a local community 40 kilometers north-east of Oslo, only 15% reported no musculo-skeletal symptoms during the last year. Just as many, 15%, predominantly women aged 50-70 years years, reported having such symptoms every day during the last year. 53% reported that they had experienced low back pain during the last year. The corresponding figures for headache, neck symptoms and shoulder symptoms were 49%, 48% and 46% respectively. Headache was most common among the younger women and neck and shoulder symptoms among middle-aged, while hip and knee symptoms were most frequent in the elderly women. Women in all age groups reported symptoms from more parts of the body than the men did.
authors.affiliation: Ullensakerundersøkelsene, Jessheim.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Natvig
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Nessiøy
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bruusgaard
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Rutle
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009140:Musculoskeletal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009664:Norway / Q000453:epidemiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: Muskel- og skjelettplager i en befolkning. Forekomst og lokalisasjon.