Occupational musculoskeletal disorders / Nortin M. Hadler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hadler, Nortin M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musculoskeletal system--Diseases.

Musculoskeletal system.

Musculoskeletal system--Wounds and injuries.

Occupational diseases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 p.)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This standard-setting book is known for its practical approach to the assessment, management, and counseling of patients with regional musculoskeletal disorders resulting in occupational incapacity. The approach is supported by a display of the relevant science and the author's philosophy in approaching uncertainties and discrepancies. The Third Edition offers discussions of the current approach to the diagnosis and management of fibromyalgia and its sister functional somatic syndromes. Recent scientific studies explore the treatment of regional musculoskeletal disorders when such a sufferer feels compelled to seek care from a physician, surgeon or "alternative" provider. Dr. Hadler has pioneered an understanding of the interfaces between statutory recourse for disabling regional musculoskeletal disorders and the patient and physician. Witty and persuasive, Hadler's text is grounded in sound, scientific principles and has been recommended by ACOEM, JAMA, JBJS, and others.

Contents:

Backache : predicament at home, nemesis at work

Functional somatic syndromes : "fibromyalgia" and the like

Reason v. the therapeutic menu: conservative, empirical, aggressive, alternative, and complementary therapies

The concept of regional musculoskeletal illness

Regional disorders of the axial skeleton

Regional disorders of the upper extremity

Regional disorders of the lower extremity

Neurovascular syndromes

The disabled, the disallowed, the disaffected and the disavowed

Epidemiology and the work-relatedness of regional musculoskeletal disorders

The vortex of disability determination

The aged worker.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

1-4698-7451-2

OCLC:

874148299