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Back pain is a common health complaint and one of the most frequent reasons for missing time at work and going to primary care doctors. Most people will experience back pain at some point during their lives and for many it will be recurrent. Although back pain may be intense, it is not usually serious. Even though back pain can affect people of any age, it is more common in adults 55 and younger. What types of back pain are more common in younger or older people?
photo caption: A common myth about FCEs is that they exist primarily to determine whether an injury is being used or feigned to get out of work. by Neil Taylor, OT, CWCE, CWcHP, and Ari Kaplan, PT, DPT, SCS, CSCS, COMT, Cert MDT A functional capacity evaluation (FCE) in the context of workers' compensation is a set of objective standardized assessments to evaluate an individual's ability to return to work following an injury on the job.
by Bento Mascarenhas, MD, FACP, FACR, William Siegel, PT, DPT, Cert MDT, and Sudhir Vaidya, MD With more than 100 types of arthritis, affecting more than 46 million Americans, arthritis is a serious condition that does not have a one-size-fits-all solution. Treatments designed to be effective for specific types of arthritis are of strong importance among the millions of individuals affected by the condition, including those who still work.
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