Don’t Wait to Break
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The foundation paper of the Research Library: the evidence-based case for preventative musculoskeletal screening of the general population — the burden, the assumptions, the WHO’s screening criteria scored honestly, and the study that screening itself becomes.
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Once a year, healthcare checks your blood pressure, your eyesight, your teeth — everything, it seems, except the machinery you use most: the body you stand and walk on. Musculoskeletal ill-health is the world’s leading cause of years lived with disability — measured annually, and prevented never. RL-00 is the foundation paper of the Dr Jo Abbott Research Library, and it asks the question the whole library exists to answer: why is there no preventative musculoskeletal screening for the general population — and what would it take to build it?
Inside, you will explore the global and UK burden data, read slowly; the six assumptions holding reactive MSK care in place; an honest scoring of population screening against the WHO’s classic Wilson & Jungner criteria — including the one criterion that remains open; the finding that 20 of 22 symptom-free people screened carried a locked walking pattern; and the proposal in which screening the population and running the missing prospective study become the same act.
Fully referenced (20 sources) and free to download, with the living dataset behind it open to explore on the Living Research page. The plain-language edition of this argument is Patient Reading Room No. 0. Don’t wait to break.
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