[Diseases caused by biomechanical overload and preventive services in Emilia Romagna, Lombardy, Tuscany and Veneto].

Statistics elaborated in this work are aimed at offering an outline describing the musculoskeletal diseases indicated as professional in our Country, but above all try to emphasize certain critical aspects of the information sources available for a correct and reliable vision of the phenomenon itself. The available data in Italy concerning the pathologies as biomechanic overload make reference, basically, to two different sources: the database of the National Institute for the Insurance of the Accidents at Work (INAIL) and the systems of sanitary surveillance for the professional diseases registration activated in certain Regions. The combined reading of the data sources allows to stress how the musculoskeletal diseases are definitively not diminishing in our Country, showing both back lesions and reiterated lesions caused by overload, including the upper limbs troubles connected to the working activity; among these Carpal Tunnel Syndrome represents a striking case in recent years.