The illness by the work of physiotherapists

Introduction
Physiotherapists are professionals who work to promote individual health, exercise and many of these activities, which require the completion of repetitive motion and strength, inadequate workstations and undesirable attitudes, which may predispose to the emergence of disturbances musculoskeletal. The present investigation aims to identify and give visibility to health problems and physical therapists to provide subsidies for the prevention of illness through work.

Methods
Integrative literature review through a retrospective review of published research in the period 1986-2010 in journals indexed in the databases. Regarding the level of evidence of the selected studies, we used the scale of level of evidence proposed by Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt (2005) ranging from one to seven with one representing the strongest evidence and seven weaker evidence.

Results
8665 articles were located, where only 591 of these were related to thematic and only 11 articles were selected for analysis.
The results showed, according to each study, most of them, nine studies were based on descriptive studies or qualitative, being based on only one well-designed trials without randomization and an integrative literature review. According to the articles selected in this integrative review, it could be seen that the musculoskeletal symptoms were the most frequent among physical therapists. The major musculoskeletal disorders mentioned were considered work-related complaints and were located in the upper limbs, lumbar spine and cervical spine.

Discussion
Considering the surveys used in this review, we believe that further studies with greater methodological rigor should be performed in order to obtain more effective correlations as increased workload and involvement of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, area of action and susceptibility to musculoskeletal injuries, time of practice and occupational onset of symptoms. With regard to sex most involved in this profession, studies reviewed and consulted on further contradict the claim that females are more affected.