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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MANANGEMENT OF UNCOMPLICATED BACK PAIN IN THE WORKERS'COMPENSATION SYSTEM: A FUCUS ON FUNCTIONAL RESTORATION
Date: 10/1/2004
Link: JOURNAL OF CHIROPRACTIC MEDICINE.
Objective: To present recommendations for conservative strategies to improve the management of uncomplicated back pain and to evaluate the financial crisis currently facing the workers' compensation system due in part to rapidly rising medical costs.
Background: Medical costs in the workers' compensation system have risen at an alarming rate placing a tremendous burden on the cost of doing business in the United States. Historically, treatment for back pain in the United States has been a pathology-based approach; the literature supports a functional restorative approach for clinical efficacy and cost effectiveness.
Design: Narrative overview of the literature.