Complexities in understanding the role of compensation-related factors on recovery from whiplash-associated disorders

Spine

Volumn 36, Issue , 2011, Pages S316-S321

  Carroll, Linda J ^a   Connelly, Luke B ^b   Spearing, Natalie M ^b   Côté, Pierre ^c   Buitenhuis, Jan ^d   Kenardy, Justin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compensation; Design; Research; Whiplash

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPENSATION; CONVALESCENCE; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; NECK PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WHIPLASH INJURY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; COMPENSATION AND REDRESS; HUMANS; NECK PAIN; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EID: 84859413744     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3182388739     Document Type: Review

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