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By Stephen Demeter, MD, MPH, Professor and Head of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown, OH; Past
President, American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians Gunnar Andersson, MD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Description This complement to the new, 5th Edition of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairments provides the step-by-step
guidance needed to judge the degree to which impairments affect performance for specific jobs and whether disability is present. You'll
also understand how to use tests such as functional capacity evaluations and work hardening to assess and manage disabilities. A standard
format for each body region covers sources of disability (pathological conditions and common occupationally related injuries), history,
methods of physical examination, radiographic testing and interpretation, disability ratings, and work rating information.
Contents
I. Introduction
1. Introduction to Disability and Impairment 2. The Historical Development of Disability Programs
in the U.S. 3. Economic Costs of Disability 4. Federal Workers' Compensation Programs 5. State Workers' Compensation Programs 6.
Social Security Disability Programs 7. The Medical-Legal Interface 8. The Physician as a Witness 9. Evidence-based Medical Dispute
Resolution 10. Causality 11. Contrasting the Standard, Impairment, and Disability Examination
II. Impairment
12.
The Impairment-Oriented Evaluation and Report
A. Musculoskeletal Impairment Assessment
13. Range-of-Motion Evaluation 14.
The Role of Radiological Imaging in the Orthopedic Impairment Evaluation 15. Cumulative Trauma 16. Joint Systems: Hand and Wrist 17.
Joint Systems: Shoulder and Elbow 18. Joint Systems: Knee and Hip 19. Joint Systems: Foot and Ankle 20. Joint Systems: Cervical
Spine 21. Joint Systems: Thoracic and Lumbosacral Spine
33. Neurological Diagnostic Techniques 34. Central Nervous System Impairment 35. Peripheral Nervous
System Impairment 36. Visual Impairment 37. ENT Impairment
D. Psychiatric Impairment Assessment
38. Psychiatric
Diagnostic Techniques 39. Evaluating and Rating Impairment Caused by Pain 40. Evaluating and Rating Impairment Caused by Stress 41.
Psychological Impairment 42. Functional Somatic Syndromes
III. Disability
A. Introductory Concepts
43.
The Disability Evaluation and Report 44. Resource Personnel Used in a Disability Evaluation 45. The Role of the Vocational Rehabilitationist 46.
Legal Issues of Off-Work 47. Overview of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act 48. Department
of Labor Disability Forms 49. Disability Under the FAA (Federal Aviation Agency) 50. Disability Under the DOT (Department of Transportation) 51.
The Generic Functional Capacity Assessment 52. Can Joe Work?
B. Musculoskeletal Disability
53. Introduction
to Fitness-For-Duty 54. Ergonomic Basis for Job-Related Strength Testing 55. The Functional Capacity Evaluation 56. Work Hardening 57.
Orthpedic Disability - The Joints 58. Orthpedic Disability - The Spine
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