TY - JOUR
T1 - Models of return to work for musculoskeletal disorders
AU - Schultz, Izabela Z.
AU - Stowell, Anna W.
AU - Feuerstein, Michael
AU - Gatchel, Robert J.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements The authors wish to express appreciation for thoughts on the economic perspective provided by Dr. William Johnson and for initial comments on this paper provided by Dr.Glenn Pransky. We also thank both anonymous reviewers of our paper for their helpful suggestions. Supported in part by Grant Nos. K05 MH01107, 3R01 MH46402, and 2R01 DE10713 from the National Institutes of Health, and in part by the Research Secretariat of Worksafe BC.
PY - 2007/6
Y1 - 2007/6
N2 - Background: Musculoskeletal pain disorders are the most prevalent, costly, disabling, and commonly researched conditions in the workplace, yet the development of overarching conceptual models of return to work (RTW) in these conditions has been lagging. Method: A critical review of the literature was performed using multiple medical and health search engines in order to provide an evaluation of the evolution and the state of the art of health and disability models with a focus on specific models of RTW. Results: The main tenets, implications for diagnosis, treatment, and disability compensation, are the key perspectives analyzed for the following specific models of RTW: biomedical, psychosocial, forensic, ecological/case management, biopsychosocial, and two more recent models developed by the Institute of Medicine and the World Health Organization, respectively. Conclusions: Future development of models that are truly transdisciplinary, and address temporal and multidimensional aspects of occupational disability, remains a goal.
AB - Background: Musculoskeletal pain disorders are the most prevalent, costly, disabling, and commonly researched conditions in the workplace, yet the development of overarching conceptual models of return to work (RTW) in these conditions has been lagging. Method: A critical review of the literature was performed using multiple medical and health search engines in order to provide an evaluation of the evolution and the state of the art of health and disability models with a focus on specific models of RTW. Results: The main tenets, implications for diagnosis, treatment, and disability compensation, are the key perspectives analyzed for the following specific models of RTW: biomedical, psychosocial, forensic, ecological/case management, biopsychosocial, and two more recent models developed by the Institute of Medicine and the World Health Organization, respectively. Conclusions: Future development of models that are truly transdisciplinary, and address temporal and multidimensional aspects of occupational disability, remains a goal.
KW - Biomedical
KW - Biopsychosocial
KW - Disability models
KW - Occupational disability
KW - Return-to-work
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U2 - 10.1007/s10926-007-9071-6
DO - 10.1007/s10926-007-9071-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 17286211
AN - SCOPUS:34250201116
SN - 1053-0487
VL - 17
SP - 327
EP - 352
JO - Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation
JF - Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation
IS - 2
ER -