Introduction:

Musculoskeletal diseases are ailments of high prevalence, impact and impact. The medical record and the complementary tests are the first guidelines to diagnose them. The use of questionnaires is recommended to assess the limitations and impact on the quality of life of patients.

Objective:

To assess the use and effectiveness of traumatology questionnaires.

Methods:

Medline, Pubmed databases were reviewed. We recovered 32 publications mainly in English, but also in Spanish and other languages, made from 2001 to 2018. These publications collect the experience of researchers with the use of questionnaires. The search terms used were Musculoskeletal Disorders, Musculoskeletal pain; and Foot and Ankle, hip and knee, Upper Extremity, low back pain; and disability, quality of life questionnaires and assessment tool.

Results:

Forty six questionnaires were reviewed. Four on quality of life, 16 on the upper limbs (one general and 15 by location of the lesion), 19 on the lower limbs (four general and 15 by location of the lesion) and 7 on spine.

Conclusions:

There is no consensus among the authors on which is the best questionnaire for assessing of the impact and repercussion. Several of them are combined. The choice of the questionnaire and the one that is generic (on quality of life) or specific (on upper, lower limbs or spinal) is in line with the objective sought in this research, the researcher´s experience, clinical use and the time needed to fill it out.

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