Work status and health-related quality of life following multimodal work hardening: a cluster randomised trial.

Background: Systematic reviews have confirmed the effectiveness of work-related rehabilitation with significant cognitive-behavioural components for patients with musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). In Germany, however, work-related rehabilitation focuses mainly on functional capacity training and less on psychosocial work demands.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of multimodal work hardening (MWH) with a cognitive-behavioural approach.

[Return to work following work-related orthopaedic rehabilitation: a cluster randomized trial].

Background: Since the 1990s work-related programmes became more important in orthopaedic rehabilitation. However, in Germany orthopaedic rehabilitation initially focussed on improvements in evaluating functional capacity and on the development of appropriate modules of exercise therapy while psychosocial work demands have been less considered in the rehabilitation process so far.

Objective: Aims of the study were implementation and efficacy evaluation of an intensified multimodal work-related programme following a cognitive behavioural approach.

[Changes in subjective health in sports participating and sedentary patients after 4-week treatment in a rehabilitation clinic].

Presented are selected findings of a study of 62 patients who had participated in a four-week inpatient treatment programme in a health-resort rehabilitation clinic due to complaints of the locomotor organs. The patients' physical and general complaints showed statistically significant reductions in the course of this programme participation. Similar effects were stated as well for the majority of the scales pertaining to subjective health.