INDUSTRIAL REHABILITATION-MEDICINE .2. CASE-STUDIES IN OCCUPATIONAL LOW-BACK-PAIN

This self-directed learning module highlights new advances in this top ic area, It is part of the chapter on industrial rehabilitation medici ne in the Self-Directed Physiatric Education Program for practitioners and trainees in physical medicine and rehabilitation, The evaluation and management of patients presenting with low back pain are skills th at practicing physiatrists need to acquire, This chapter gives a step- by-step format, along with the thought processes involved, for managin g patients with three types of low back pain presentations. (C) 1997 b y the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.