Occupational musculoskeletal disorders.

Abstract

Part 1 The predicament of musculoskeletal morbidity: beware the procrustean bed the dangers of the diagnostic process - iatrogenic labelling as in the fibrositis paralogism all those pills the pitfalls of empirical and of aggressive therapies. Part 2 The patient with regional musculoskeletal symptoms: the concept of regional musculoskeletal ilness axial syndromes, differential diagnosis - recognizing systemic backache, regional back pain without radiculopathy, neck pain, radiculopathies, lumbar spinal stenosis, insufficiency fractures, myelopathy upper extremity regional musculoskeletal illnesses - shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand lower extremity regional musculoskeletal illnesses - hip, knee, ankle and foot the entrapment neuropathies. Part 3 The claimant with musculoskeletal disability: torts and musculoskeletal disease workers' compensation and regional backache coping with arm pain in the workplace social security - the process of pensioning the invalid the disability determination enterprise.