[Occupational low back pain in Tunisia].

Background: In Tunisia, eight researches works, dealing with low back trauma (LBT), have been achieved in some occupational sector activities and only 2 of them have been published.

Aim: To synthesize data provided by these 8 works realized between 1998 and 2007, in order to estimate the disorder magnitude and to describe LBT victims profile in Tunisia.

Methods: The global population of study is made of 1357 LBT victims (977 belonging to the private sector and 380 to the public sector).

[Coverage for rheumatic diseases by Social Security].

Background: Lasted long disease relating to the rheumatology, constitutes a constant preoccupation because of its medical and economic repercussions.

Objective: To estimate the coverage of the long lasted disease in private sector at all levels and to compare it with that of public sector.

Methods: We report a retrospective study concerning 161 requests of coverage for long lasted disease in rheumatologic affections.

[Place of the functional treatment and the multidisciplinary approach in the treatment of occupational lower back injuries].

Background: The chronic affections of the rachis lumbar vertebra are a challenge for XXI-th century. Epidemiological observations have to incite us to think about new modalities of coverage.

Objective: The objective of our work is to discuss the place of the functional treatment in the coverage of occupational accidents lumbar vertebra (ATL) and to analyze new multidisciplinary therapeutic practices.