Musculoskeletal pain is discomfort affecting the body's muscles, bones, joints, tendons, and ligaments, the structures that support movement and posture. It can be localized to a single area or felt throughout the body, may be acute or chronic, and ranges in severity from mild to disabling. Common causes include inj…
Musculoskeletal pain is discomfort affecting the body's muscles, bones, joints, tendons, and ligaments, the structures that support movement and posture. It can be localized to a single area or felt throughout the body, may be acute or chronic, and ranges in severity from mild to disabling. Common causes include injury and overuse, poor posture and repetitive strain, degenerative and inflammatory joint conditions, and a range of systemic disorders, and it affects people of all ages. Management is typically multimodal, combining exercise and physical therapy, ergonomic and lifestyle adjustments, and medications, with attention to underlying causes. Research published through Skeletal Muscle and its companion titles addresses this topic directly, including a study of the effect of food intake on musculoskeletal pains, a series of cross-sectional studies of neck, shoulder, and low back pain in physical-education university students, an investigation of chronic pain following lung transplantation, and a study of treating chronic low back pain with a high-dose capsaicin patch. These works examine the prevalence, contributing factors, and treatment of pain arising from the musculoskeletal system. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access scholarship relevant to musculoskeletal pain, its causes, and approaches to its assessment and relief.
12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
The 12 articles above have been cited 26 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Musculoskeletal Pain, linking to each citing work.