Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders

This standard-setting book is known for its practical approach to the assessment, management, and counselling 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. 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. The Third Edition has been extensively revised to provide up-to-date discussions of topics previously covered and to introduce the reader to new directions in treatment, investigation and policy. FEATURES: Up to date guidelines on the management of specific OMD disorders Up to date discussions of the medicolegal ramifications of OMD disorders Review of the community epidemiology of OMD disorders Recommended by AAOEM, JAMA, JBJS, and others Discussions of the evidence basis for diagnosis and treatment of regional musculoskeletal disorders plus analysis of disorders of the axial skeleton and upper and lower extremities Discusses the challenges of caring for workers claiming a compensatable regional musculoskeletal "injury" Discusses the concept of "fibromyalgia" and related functional somatic disorders Discusses impairment based disability determination from historical and clinical perspectives Includes a discussion of entrapment neuropathies NEW TO THIS EDITION: Expanded discussions of the current approach to the diagnosis and management of fibromyalgia and its sister functional somatic syndromes Updated discussions of the life-course experience of musculoskeletal symptoms Expanded coverage of the recourse offered to the disabled worker in the USA by Social Security disability schemes, Workers' Compensation programmes, and the Americans with Disabilities Act Increased coverage of the aging worker and the working poor Enhanced coverage of so-called ergonomic injuries and their policy and legal ramifications Discussions of the role of evidence-based medicine beyond the clinic, in the health insurance and medicolegal arena