Preventing incapacity in people with musculoskeletal disorders
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Preventing incapacity in people with musculoskeletal disorders.
Musculoskeletal disorders are among the most common causes of sickness absence, long-term incapacity for work and ill-health retirement. The number of Incapacity Benefit (IB) recipients in the United Kingdom has trebled since 1979, despite improvement in objective measures of health. Most of the trend is in non-specific conditions (largely subjective complaints, often with little objective path...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Medical Bulletin
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0007-1420,1471-8391
DOI: 10.1093/bmb/ldl008