Low back pain is a very common symptom. It occurs in high-income, middle-income, and low-income
countries and all age groups from children to the elderly population. Globally, years …

Many clinical practice guidelines recommend similar approaches for the assessment and
management of low back pain. Recommendations include use of a biopsychosocial framework …

Low back pain is the leading worldwide cause of years lost to disability and its burden is
growing alongside the increasing and ageing population. Because these population shifts are …

Questionnaire-based measures of function have been validated extensively in studies of
chronic illness and work-related low back pain. These measures have only recently been …

Criteria for the classification of carpal tunnel syndrome for use in epidemiologic studies were
developed by means of a consensus process. Twelve medical researchers with experience …

A self-reported measure of four domains of work impairment based on the Work Limitations
Questionnaire was completed by 16,651 employees of a large financial services corporation. …

Similar mechanisms have been proposed to explain the stress-buffering effects of both
dispositional optimism and perceived control. Yet dispositional optimism as a personal resource …

Accurate reporting of work-related conditions is necessary to monitor workplace health and
safety, and to identify the interventions that are most needed. Reporting systems may be …

Objective: Decreased on-the-job productivity represents a large yet poorly characterized
indirect cost to employers. We studied the impact of employee health risk factors on self-…

Introduction: Psychosocial factors are important contributors to work disability associated
with musculoskeletal conditions. The primary objectives of this paper were 1) to describe …