Occupational and Physical Therapy for Work-Related Upper Extremity Disorders: How We Can Influence Outcomes

Clinics in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 471-482

  Driver, Dennis F ^a  

^a Concentra Health Services ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM DISEASE; ARM MOVEMENT; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BIOMECHANICS; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EMPLOYEE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JOB SATISFACTION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST ATTITUDE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PHYSIOTHERAPIST ATTITUDE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SKILL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIETY;

EID: 33646110992     PISSN: 15260046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coem.2005.11.011     Document Type: Review

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