Journal article
Determinants of vocational disability in patients with low back pain
Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, Vol.70(8), pp.589-593
08/1989
DOI: 10.5555/uri:pii:0003999389900841
PMID: 2527487
Abstract
Eighty-seven unemployed subjects with low back pain were recruited from an orthopedic back pain clinic and were given a battery of physical and psychologic tests. Subjects were contacted six months later to determine their current compensation status and whether they had returned to work. Age, length of time out of work, how much they had lifted in their previous job, the number of weeks they had been compensated, current activity levels, leg pain, and various psychologic factors significantly differentiated those who worked from those who did not. Physical examination findings and testing of the ability to lift were not significantly related to return to work. It is suggested that demographic, job-related, and psychologic factors should be emphasized, rather than only physical capacity, in the evaluation of vocational potential and the assessment of disability in patients with low back pain.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Determinants of vocational disability in patients with low back pain
- Creators
- Raymond L Milhous - University of VermontLarry D HaughJohn W FrymoyerJohanna M RuessRollin M GallagherDavid G WilderPeter W Callas
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, Vol.70(8), pp.589-593
- DOI
- 10.5555/uri:pii:0003999389900841
- PMID
- 2527487
- NLM abbreviation
- Arch Phys Med Rehabil
- ISSN
- 0003-9993
- eISSN
- 1532-821X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/1989
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Occupational and Environmental Health
- Record Identifier
- 9984196976702771
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