The Relationship of Disability to Compensation Status in Railroad Workers
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Spine
- Vol. 11 (2) , 141-143
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00007632-198603000-00007
Abstract
The role that the secondary gain of work-related back pain plays in the length of disability is an issue that has been debated for years without absolute resolution. This article compares the disability period of lumbar sprain/strain and operated back cases in employees injured on duty and off duty. The patients injured on duty had a statistically significantly longer period of disability than those injured off duty, even when the cases were matched for gender and type of injury.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: