Effective Management of Musculoskeletal Injury A Clinical Ergonomics Approach to Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation

This practical guide is designed to help clinicians understand the workplace and lifestyle factors that contribute to musculoskeletal injuries. It examines ergonomic causes as well as personal and psychosocial factors, in addition to discussing cumulative and chronic types of injury. Content demonstrates how the pathophysiological processes underlying an injury are key to effectively managing patients. Holistic, research-based management models incorporate a range of therapeutic approaches, including manual therapy, exercise, and ergonomic and psychosocial interventions, to treat the whole patient rather than the presenting symptoms. Extensive sections on low back pain and neck, shoulder, and upper limb pain evaluate the specific processes involved and the most effective methods of treatment.<li>Presents a complete system of patient management that treats the injury, the patient with the injury, and the patient's environment. </li><li>Examines the interface between ergonomics and manual therapy</li><li>The book emphasises understanding the cause of the injury and how these create the symptom picture</li><li>Addresses a major clinical problem area (chronic low back pain), which has high costs for the health systems and for employers</li><li>Provides a long-term solution to the demands on the time of practitioners by encouraging them to look beyond the presenting patient to the factors in their lifestyle which have created the problem</li><li>Topical - the problem of chronic back pain has become a major national crisis</li><li>Relevant to a broad spectrum of practitioners.</li>