In their recent Analysis and Commentary article Bursztajn and colleagues argue persuasively that to provide comprehensive independent medical evaluations (IMEs), forensic psychiatrists must take into account the managed care context of a claimant's case. The author of this article agrees with that assessment, but adds that another significant problem in his practice occurs when disability claim...

But other definitions are sharper, e.g. impairment is a physiologic or anatomic dysfunction which is easily measured identically from person to person. Disability, then, becomes the result of that impairment on the individual with all of the personal characteristics including age, co-morbid conditions, education, experience, etc. Handicap adds the environment to the mix. This involves the job m...

Hearing loss is a common condition among US adults, with some evidence of increasing prevalence in young adults. Noise-induced hearing loss attributable to employment is a significant source of preventable morbidity world-wide. The US military population is largely comprised of young adult males serving in a wide variety of occupations, many in high noise-level conditions, at least episodically...

BACKGROUND Evidence was sought in the published literature on how best to measure, monitor, and treat disability in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). METHODS A systematic review was performed of English-language literature published between January 1, 1988, and November 15, 2001. Interventional and observational studies of adults with CFS were eligible if they reported measures of...

objective: fragile x syndrome is the second etiology for inherited mental retardation. it may concomitant with other psychiatric disorders. intellectual disability (id) is a state of functioning that typically begins in childhood and is characterized by limitations in intelligence and adaptive skills. we intend to introduce a male young patient with fragile x syndrome and obsessive-compulsive d...

OBJECTIVE: To determine the effects of exercise training on severity low back pain, disability, and quality life in pregnant women followed by telerehabilitation. STUDY DESIGN: This prospective cohort study consisted 11 women. Low pain effect functionality, life, aerobic capacity were determined Visual Analogue Scale, Oswestry Back Pain Disability Questionnaire, Short Form-36 (SF-36) 6-minute w...

XIX EUMASS Congress 2012 JA 1 VALIDATION OF THE EUMASS CORE SET IN SOCIAL INSURANCE Jessica ANNER, Søren BRAGE, Peter DONCEEL, Fredy FALEZ, Corina OANCEA, Ruediger FREUDENSTEIN, Thomas ZUMBRUNN, Wout DE BOER 1 asim, Academy of Swiss Insurance Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland 2 Department of General Practice and Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway 3 Occupational, Envir...

High-dose cyclophosphamide (HDC) is a chemotherapy treatment designed to eradicate autoreative B- and T-cells responsible for lymphocyte-mediated autoimmune illness while sparing the pluripotent blood stem cell of any ill effects. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common inflammatory and demyelinating immune-mediated disorder of the central nervous system in young adults. Patients with modera...