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Neck pain is one of the most common complaints, with about one fifth of adults worldwide reporting pain annually. [32] According to the Labour Force Survey 2019/20 carried out by the UK's Health and Safety Executive (HSE), 8.9 million working days were lost due to work-related musculoskeletal disorders and 480,000 workers have these disorders. [33]
Explanatory model of chronic pain. Chronic pain is defined as reoccurring or persistent pain lasting more than 3 months. [1] The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as "An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage". [2]
Parkinson's disease, or simply Parkinson's, [28] is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The disease has many complications, including anxiety, dementia, and depression. [29] Parkinson's disease typically occurs in people over the age of 60, of whom about one percent are affected.
Late-life depression refers to depression occurring in older adults and has diverse presentations, including as a recurrence of early-onset depression, a new diagnosis of late-onset depression, and a mood disorder resulting from a separate medical condition, substance use, or medication regimen. [1]
Masked depression (MD) was a proposed form of atypical depression [1] in which somatic symptoms or behavioural disturbances dominate the clinical picture and disguise the underlying affective disorder. [2] The concept is not currently supported by the mental health profession. [3]
This category reflects the organization of International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision. Generally, diseases outlined within the ICD-10 codes M00-M99 within Chapter XIII: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue should be included in this category.
[3] [4] Older people with certain medical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and dementia, are also more likely to have frailty. [5] [6] In addition, adults living with frailty face more symptoms of anxiety and depression than those who do not. [7] Frailty is not an inevitable part of aging.
Clinical depression is the most common neuropsychiatric condition: lifetime depression prevalence rates of 40–50% and 12-month prevalence rates around 20% have been typically reported for samples of people with MS; these figures are considerably higher than those for the general population or for people with other chronic illnesses.