Background: Majority of patients with musculoskeletal pain (MSP) relates their pain to weather changes
especially cold one. However, there is inconsistency in the previous literature about that.
Objective: to investigate the difference between winter and summer seasons in the occurrences of MSP and
its attributes.
Methods: A hospital-based cross-sectional study included 680 patients with musculoskeletal disorders collected
from medical records of physiotherapy referrals to an Orthopedic out-patient clinic at a large university
hospital in Egypt was conducted. The patients were divided into two groups based on season of their referral;
winter group (N=350, from 8/12/2019 to 23/3/2019) and summer group (N=330, from 8/6/2019 to 23/8/2019).
Prevalence of MSP (non-specific pain in muscles, tendons, and joint) was compared between the two seasons
which. Chi-squared test (significance at p0.05). Moreover, the attributes including body
region, gender, and affected side had non-significant effect (p>0.05) on this prevalence.
Conclusion: weather has no significant effect on prevalence of MSP. |
