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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on April 19, 2005
Rheumatology 2005 44(7):831-833; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/keh648
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EDITORIAL

Issues with chronic musculoskeletal pain

P. Brooks

Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia

Correspondence to: P. Brooks. E-mail: p.brooks@uq.edu.au

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Of all the happiness mankind can gain, is not in pleasure but in rest from pain.

John Dryden (1631–1700), The Indian Explorer (1665), Act 1, Scene 1

Pain is the most common symptom of which the human kind complains. Pain has been recognized by the World Health Organization as a problem of global proportions [1] and the focus on musculoskeletal pain and the burden it produces has been one of the driving forces in the creation of the International Bone and Joint Decade (2000–2010) [2]. Musculoskeletal diseases are the most common cause of pain in the UK [3] and internationally [4]. It is often said that although on the majority of measures the health of communities (at least in the developed world) has been improving over the last few decades, we are, as individuals, feeling ‘sicker’ than ever before! In this issue . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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