RESEARCH ARTICLE Musculoskeletal disorder r o g

Full list of author information is available at the end of the articleAfrica, with 24 percent of the global burden of disease, employs only three percent of all health professionals [1]. Nurses in Africa are arguably the most important health care workers available in most sub-Saharan nations, per-forming a broad range of tasks and working in settings where no other health workers, including physicians, are fessionals stands at a dismal six nurses to 100,000 popula-tions [3], with the result that the available few have to work under relatively difficult conditions. Musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) have been described as one of the main occupational hazards among frontline health care workers in whom they present as a major oc-cupational problem and a significant cause of morbidity [4]. Nursing professionals are commonly identified as being at risk for patient handling injuries, but many other * Correspondence: erisamwaka@yahoo.com1Anatomy Department, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of HealthAbstrac