Increased expenditures for other health conditions after an incident of low back pain.

Study Design: We reviewed healthcare expenditures in a random sample of 655 patients from a managed health plan with new onset low back pain (LBP) in 1999.

Objective: To understand the affect of LBP on health care utilization for other health conditions.

Summary Of Background Data: Researchers often consider individual diseases in isolation rather than seeking a more comprehensive picture of comorbid conditions and their collective influence.

Physiotherapy, steroid injections, or rest for lateral epicondylosis? What the evidence suggests.

Objective: To identify effective lateral epicondylosis interventions and assess the quality of research over time.

Methods: Relevant MEDLINE and EMBASE searches respectively yielded 226 and 187 potential studies. Additional citations were extracted from bibliographies.

Return to work for a company president with traumatic brain injury.

Return to work remains a central issue for many traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients. The present literature generally ignores the complex work issues involved for high-functioning individuals, in whose hands may lie the fate of many other workers. This case discusses return-to-work challenges facing a 64-year-old high-technology company founder and president.

Health effects and occupational exposures among office workers near the World Trade Center disaster site.

The extent of health effects and exposure to environmental contaminants among workers and residents indirectly affected by the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center (WTC) is unknown. The objective of this study was to evaluate concerns related to health effects and occupational exposures three months after the WTC disaster among a population of employees working in a building close to the disaster site. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was performed of Federal employees working near the WTC site in New York City (NYC) and a comparison group of Federal employees in Dallas, Texas.