Chapter 8
Comorbidities and Workers’ Compensation: Responsive Approaches to Work Hardening and Conditioning
Matt Kruger, Jeff Rogers, Chris E. Stout and Maureen Kohl Bennington
Abstract
This chapter will delve into various co-morbidities or pre-existing health/medical conditions that may negatively impact injured workers’ abilities to gain appropriate rehabilitative milestones. It is surprising to see that they so often go ignored in spite of the dramatic impact they have. This chapter also looks at various ironies and then offers Bennington’s (2010) wise ideas for ways to manage these problems. The chapter concludes with a description of a unique work hardening and conditioning program that has demonstrated efficacy.
Total Pages: 39-50 (12)
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