Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders
Published on 1. November 1992
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-88167-959-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume looks at the management of otherwise healthy people with regional musculoskeletal symptoms that cause occupational incapacity. The first section provides general information on musculoskeletal disease. The following sections provide practical information describing how to approach the patient and useless versus useless treatment. The last section deals with issues which cannot be ignored when dealing with occupational disability and is written in "broad strokes" so that the information is not dated or of limited applicability. The book also has insights into how people perceive and cope with musculoskeletal illness and how these perceptions impact on the physician-patient interaction. It also has guidelines on management and diagnosis of specific regional musculoskeletal illness and on disability determination.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
41 tables, 90 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
550 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88167-959-5 (9780881679595)
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Other editions
New editions
N.M. Hadler
Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders
Book
04/1999
2nd Edition
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
€95.52
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Content
Part 1 The predicament of musculoskeletal morbidity: beware the procrustean bed; the dangers of the diagnostic process - iatrogenic labelling as in the fibrositis paralogism; all those pills; the pitfalls of empirical and of aggressive therapies. Part 2 The patient with regional musculoskeletal symptoms: the concept of regional musculoskeletal ilness; axial syndromes, differential diagnosis - recognizing systemic backache, regional back pain without radiculopathy, neck pain, radiculopathies, lumbar spinal stenosis, insufficiency fractures, myelopathy; upper extremity regional musculoskeletal illnesses - shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand; lower extremity regional musculoskeletal illnesses - hip, knee, ankle and foot; the entrapment neuropathies. Part 3 The claimant with musculoskeletal disability: torts and musculoskeletal disease; workers' compensation and regional backache; coping with arm pain in the workplace; social security - the process of pensioning the invalid; the disability determination enterprise.