Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: August 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780781749220
Subjects: Occupational medicine; Orthopaedics & fractures; Occupational diseases; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Wounds and injuries; Orthopedics; Occupational & Industrial Medicine; Rheumatology; Medical / Occupational & Industrial Medicine; Diseases; Musculoskeletal system
Description: Addressed to specialist and primary doctors and nurses, other health professionals, attorneys, the insurance industry, government employees, and others who share a concern for the welfare of people with regional musculoskeletal disorders that relate to their ability to work. Discusses such matters as backache at home and work, the axial syndromes, workers' compensation schemes and regional back or leg pain, disability determination, and plaints of the aged worker and the working poor. Updates the first edition with new medical information and the deterioration of labor-management relations and the distribution of wealth over the previous five years.