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Table 7.

Overview of the 8 articles reporting the WMSD prevalence by body area among surgeons, extracted from the 15 most cited articles

Authors	Study characteristics				Body area
Authors	Study characteristics				Neck	Back	Upper back	Mid back	Lower back	Shoulder	Elbow	Wrist	Hand/Fingers	Thumb	Hip	Knee	Ankle/Foot
Batham and Yasobant (2016)	N-participants	93 dentists	Age (year)	27.7 ± 3.1	88.2%	-	17.2%	-	86.0%	34.4%	5.4%	-	54.8%	-	0.0%	2.1%	19.3%
	Country	India	Practice (year)	5.5 ± 3.0
	Male/Female (%)	37.0/63.0	Case load (per week)	54.4 ± 8.3 h
Capone et al. (2010)	N-participants	325 surgeons	Age (year)	48.1	-	-	26.8%	9.2%	24.0%	17.9%	29.8%	24.7%	-	12.6%	-	-	-
	Country	United States	Practice (year)	12.9
	Male/Female (%)	87.1/12.9	Case load (per week)	NR
Cavanagh et al. (2012)	N-participants	100 ORL	Age (year)	52.96 ± 8.0.3	59.7%	56.5%	-	-	-	-	-	19.4%	-	-	-	-	-
	Country	United States	Practice (year)	21.17 ± 9.32
	Male/Female (%)	85.0/15.0	Case load (per week)	NR
Epstein et al. (2018)	N-participants	7981 surgeons	Age (year)	48	60.0%	49.0%	-	-	-	52.0%	-	-	35.0%	-	-	-	-
	Country	United States	Practice (year)	12.6
	Male/Female (%)	NR	Case load (per week)	12.9 h/8.3 cases
Hallbeck et al. (2017)	N-participants	56 surgeons	Age (year)	47.1 ± 9.4	75.0%	-	61.0%	-	69.0%	51.0%	-	-	31.0%	-	-	26.0%	26.0%
	Country	United States	Practice (year)	11.6
	Male/Female (%)	67.9/32.1	Case load (per week)	NR
Rambabu and Suneetha (2014)	N-participants	37 surgeons	Age (year)	30−60	11.0%	-	5.0%	-	20.0%	8.0%	5.0%	-	8.0%	-	12.0%	16.0%	15.0%
	Country	India	Practice (year)	> 5
	Male/Female (%)	NR	Case load (per week)	> 50 h
	N-participants	61 dentists	Age (year)	30−60	30.0%	-	12.0%	-	24.0%	18.0%	4.0%	-	22.0%	-	0.0%	5.0%	10.0%
	Country	India	Practice (year)	> 5
	Male/Female (%)	NR	Case load (per week)	> 50 h
Stomberg et al. (2010)	N-participants	101 gyneco	Age (year)	48.2 ± 10.2	50.0%	-	24.0%	-	55.0%	51.0%	6.0%	14.0%	17.0%	-	-	27.0%	-
	Country	Sweden	Practice (year)	14.5 ± 10.4
	Male/Female (%)	36.6/63.4	Case load (per week)	1.9 h
	N-participants	103 surgeons	Age (year)	43.3 ± 9.1	44.0%	-	22.5%	-	44.0%	38.0%	7.0%	10.0%	30.0%	-	-	27.0%	-
	Country	Sweden	Practice (year)	8.7 ± 5.1
	Male/Female (%)	82.2/17.8	Case load (per week)	3 h
Szeto et al. (2009)	N-participants	135 surgeons	Age (year)	35.3	82.9%	-	52.6%	-	68.1%	57.8%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Country	Chine	Practice (year)	10.0 ± 7.3
	Male/Female (%)	82.2/17.8	Case load (per week)	NR

NR: not recorded; ORL: otolaryngologists; Gyneco: gynecologists; -: not provided

Declarations

Author contributions

PG: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Data curation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing, Visualization, Supervision, Project administration, Funding acquisition. JJB: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Data curation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing, Visualization.

Conflicts of interest

Philippe Gorce is the Editorial Board Member and Guest Editor of Exploration of Musculoskeletal Diseases, but he had no involvement in the decision-making or the review process of this manuscript. Another author declares that there is no conflicts of interest.

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Availability of data and materials

The datasets for this manuscript are not publicly available because the authors prefer to communicate directly with researchers interested in the same issues rather than open access whose use is not controlled. Requests for accessing the datasets should be directed to jacquier@univ-tln.fr.

Funding

This work was supported by the Erbio Association [EBC012024]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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