Return to Work Following Low Back Pain

Tanti Ajoe Kesoema

2019

Abstract

Low back pain (LBP) is a highly prevalent cause of disability and one of the most expensive health conditions. Along with personal suffering, LBP can result in decreased productivity and absenteeism. It is also one of the leading causes of lost work time. Rather than viewing work resumption as a discrete event, returning to work after an episode of work disability can be viewed as a process that encompasses a series of events, transitions, and phases, and includes interactions with other individuals and the environment. The return to work (RTW) process is conceived of as the process workers go through to reach, or attempt to reach, their RTW goal (typically a return to their pre-disability work participation). The process is thought of as beginning at the onset of work disability and concluding when a satisfactory long-term outcome has been achieved. A successful RTW coordination seems more based on ergonomics job accommodation, communication, and conflict resolution rather than on medical or purely biomechanical knowledge. It is very substantial for Rehabilitation Medicine to pay attention to this need to achieve the goal of LBP clients to RTW successfully.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kesoema T. (2019). Return to Work Following Low Back Pain.In Proceedings of the 11th National Congress and the 18th Annual Scientific Meeting of Indonesian Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Association - Volume 1: KONAS XI and PIT XVIII PERDOSRI, ISBN 978-989-758-409-1, pages 70-75. DOI: 10.5220/0009062700700075

in Bibtex Style

@conference{konas xi and pit xviii perdosri19,
author={Tanti Ajoe Kesoema},
title={Return to Work Following Low Back Pain},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th National Congress and the 18th Annual Scientific Meeting of Indonesian Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Association - Volume 1: KONAS XI and PIT XVIII PERDOSRI,},
year={2019},
pages={70-75},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009062700700075},
isbn={978-989-758-409-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th National Congress and the 18th Annual Scientific Meeting of Indonesian Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Association - Volume 1: KONAS XI and PIT XVIII PERDOSRI,
TI - Return to Work Following Low Back Pain
SN - 978-989-758-409-1
AU - Kesoema T.
PY - 2019
SP - 70
EP - 75
DO - 10.5220/0009062700700075