Prevalence and medical and social importance of disorders and diseases of the musculoskeletal systems in children and adolescents (review of literature)
Mirskaia, N.B.; Kolomenskaia, A.N.; Siniakina, A.D.
Gigiena i Sanitariia 94(1): 97-104
2015
ISSN/ISBN: 0016-9900 PMID: 26031051 Document Number: 680216
The urgency of the problem of the excess incidence of disorders and diseases of the musculoskeletal system (MSS) in contemporary children and adolescents is determined by its high medical and social significance. However, the poor quality of diagnosis of MSS disorders in children at the polyclinics level, especially at the initial stages, when timely commenced recreational and corrective-measures are most effective, do not allow to carry out remedial work timely, and this in turn is the cause of the high prevalence of violations of the MSS later With the aim of the improvement of the quality of diagnosis of early forms of musculoskeletal pathology in children and adolescents, as well as for the performance of the prevention during learning them in school there is developed an information system for health care workers "Identification, correction and prevention of disorders of the locomotor apparatus in students of educational institutions". The core of the system is formed by developed by authors a classification of functional disorders and initial forms of diseases of the MSS in students, as well as the organization of this work.