REHAB 109

Course overview

*Describe the early health care utilization for occupational low back pain. *Determine which factors are important in predicting outcome after a spinal stabilization exercise program. *Assess lumbar disc surgery rates before and after implementation of nonsurgical spine clinics. *Determine whether kinematic compromise can be used to predict spine loading in low back pain (LBP) patients under realistic lifting efforts in a workplace. *Determine the effects of subacute LBP and limitation of the straight leg raise on lumbar and hip kinematics during sit-to-stand and its reverse.