17th Annual AAOS Workers' Compensation and Musculoskeletal Injuries : Improving Outcomes with Back-to-Work, Legal and Administrative Strategies

At the conclusion of this course, learners should be able to:

• Evaluate patients with musculoskeletal pain resulting from workplace injury and formulate a treatment plan with appropriate return-to-work guidelines
• Manage patients with acute and chronic musculoskeletal pain
• Compare and contrast surgical and nonsurgical treatment protocols for workplace injuries
• Apply alternative treatments and rehabilitation techniques to achieve quality outcomes to care for work-related injuries
• Identify how to avoid unnecessary disability
• Evaluate patients for impairment and submit accurate reports
• Improve report writing and develop new skills in office management for work-related injuries
• Use science to document return-to-work decision