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Purpose: Professional muscle skeletal diseases (MIC) are a serious health and economic problem. Occupational health and safety are very important for the prevention of these diseases. Although there is a lot of work on the upper extremity MKIH, this number is very small in the lower extremity. A very small portion of these work is also an investigation work. Our goal was to determine the frequency and risk factors of lower end diseases in heavy-industrial workers. Tools and Methods: The study included 1,268 patients diagnosed with MRI from the physiotherapy and rehabilitation (FTR) clinic, examined and radiological examinations, male and female diagnosed with MRI from the lower limb, 110 heavy industrial workers from 2018 to 2020. The demographic data of patients, risk factors and diseases in the place where they work are recorded. Results: Of the patients diagnosed with MRI in the FTR clinic, the frequency of those diagnosed with MRI in the lower limb was 8.67% (n=110). The areas where these were observed were, respectively, knees (83.6 percent of patients), followed by foot-foot arms (24.5 percent) and spine joints (20.9 percent). In our study, the frequency of wearing special shoes/bots in cases with foot-beard MCI was statistically significantly increased (p<0,001). The result: MICH occurs in both the lower and upper extremities. Special shoes and boots designed for the work environment should contain features that will help reduce the MRI in the foot-foot arms.

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