Causes of the musculoskeletal disorders

The majority of the musculoskeletal disorders are not associated with an only cause, but instead that are owed a combination from several factors that include the characteristics specific to every person, work and factors factors workextra.

• Personalfactors: the physical constitution, the general condition of health, the age, the sex or the genetics.
• Workfactors: the work organisations, the repetition of tasks, excessive efforts, the handbook loads manipulation, inadequate postures and the lack of recovery time of the groups muscular implicated.
• Extraworkfactors: take a sedentary life or the intensive practice of sports in which is used intensively a certain bodily area.

Work origin musculoskeletal disorders are source of pain and suffering for the affected ones, so much in its work life as a staff. Not only for the physical suffering but also for a possible incomes decrease because of sick leaves, for the expenditure in medicines, processing, for the invested time in general practices, for the rehabilitation, etc.

Although specific numbers, the economic cost estimated by the European Agency is not had for the Security and the Health of the health problems related to the work because of musculoskeletal disorders fluctuates between 0.5% and 2% of the gross domestic product (GDP). Applying this estimate you would suppose an annual cost in the GDP of Spain of approximately 13,000 million euros.

Between costs that they can arrive at to generate to the companies we must emphasise losses of production, experienced staff's losses, contracting and training of staff costs new, consequences of the malaise or the poor health in the quality of the work and other expenses derived from the management of the person's substitution hard-working injured.

The economic and social high cost derived from musculoskeletal disorders highlights the need of taking measures that help to the prevention of this kind of injuries.