A New Approach to Measuring Recovery in Injured Workers With Acute Low Back Pain: Resumption of Activities of Daily Living Scale | Zendy

Renee Williams | Zendy; Anita M. Myers | Zendy

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A New Approach to Measuring Recovery in Injured Workers With Acute Low Back Pain: Resumption of Activities of Daily Living Scale

Author(s) -

Renee Williams,

Anita M. Myers

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

physical therapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1538-6724

pISSN - 0031-9023

DOI - 10.1093/ptj/78.6.613

Subject(s) - physical therapy , medicine , activities of daily living , internal consistency , reliability (semiconductor) , test (biology) , scale (ratio) , musculoskeletal injury , psychology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , psychometrics , clinical psychology , alternative medicine , paleontology , power (physics) , physics , pathology , quantum mechanics , biology

Spontaneous recovery, job satisfaction, and multiple other factors make return to work a highly problematic indicator. Available client questionnaires fail to consider what was "normal" or "usual" prior to low back injury. Based on themes described by injured persons, we suggest a new approach to determining "recovery"--the Resumption of Activities of Daily Living (RADL) Scale.

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