Conclusion The type of healthcare provider first visited for back pain is a determinant of the duration of financial compensation during the first 5months. Chiropractic patients experience the shortest duration of compensation, and physiotherapy patients experience the longest. These differences raise ...
So far this year in Missouri, 5,479 workers compensation cases have been filed. A large portion of these involve back injuries and pain that are often hard to prove resulted from a workplace accident, especially if the plaintiff has had prior treatment for backache. It is critical that you...
The studies were of subjects with musculoskeletal pain, mainly low back pain.Filing a compensation claim for costs, retaining a lawyer, or higher pain intensities were limited predictors of longer claims (level 3). As the ratio of compensation to preinjury wage increases, there is moderate ...
Financial compensation has been shown to be a negative prognostic factor for pain and disability in patients with neck or low back pain. It is unclear whether this association is causal and to what extent it hampers return to work. The objective of this study was to assess the direct influenc...
To investigate this, we measured emotional state, pain and disability in 19 compensation recipients and in 18 others who had settled their claim for lower back pain. All subjects were unemployed, and sex distribution was similar in both groups. Compensation recipients showed more signs of emotional...
Past, present and future pain and suffering must be accounted for. Also, a possible disability for a back head injury will have to be estimated. If you will have any wage loss or loss of business income, then you need to make sure this is estimated in your claim when your settle or ...
Effect of time limited vs. unlimited compensation of pain behaviour and treatment outcome in low back pain patients : R.N. Jamison, D.A. Matt and W.C.V. Parris, J. Psychosom. Res., 32 (1988) 277–283doi:10.1016/0304-3959(89)90266-2None...
Antipsychotics/Antidepressants—Vraylar—Applicant, 52 years old, suffered an industrial orthopedic injury on 9/4/2008 and was being treated for back pain in addition to various psychiatric symptoms, including depression, anxiety disorder, and adjustment disorder. He had been prescribed Vraylar since at...
Low back pain (LBP), a common illness that may progress to chronic disability, costs many billions for care, lost work, and compensation. Conventional medicine does nor effectively restore chronic LBP patients to work; multidisciplinary rehabilitation does, but limited or delayed access risks unnecess...
Although information exists on the cost of workers' compensation low back pain (LBP), there is limited information on the duration of lost work time as well as the association between cost and duration. For this study, cost and duration of lost work time information were derived from a large...