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Article: Reports on neck pain findings from P. Cote and co-researchers provide new insights.(Reprint)(Clinical report)
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- May 6, 2009
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"Cohort study. To measure the prevalence and incidence of work absenteeism involving neck pain in a cohort of claimants to the Ontario Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB)," scientists writing in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics report (see also Neck Pain).
"According to workers' compensation statistics, neck pain accounts for a small proportion of lost-time claims. However, these statistics may be biased by an underenumeration of claimants with neck disorders. We studied all lost-time claimants to the Ontario WSIB in 1998 and used 2 methods to enumerate neck pain cases. We report the prevalence and incidence of neck pain using 2 ...