Summary
Occupational back injuries make up nearly a third of all workers' compensation claims payments. Even with advances in medicine and physical therapy, addressing back injuries has remained a major workers' compensation issue, as well as a budgetary headache for risk managers trying to control costs. Studies have shown that education alone reduces incidence and recurrence of low back injury in the workplace. Self-care and responsibility in management of the injury is a critical step in the employee's returning to work, or even more importantly, remaining at work.
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Addressing Back Injuries
Occupational back injuries make up nearly a third of all workers' compensation claims payments, annually accounting for nearly 12 million lost work days and some 400,000 longterm disability claims. Half of all first-tim...
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