Disability Evaluation 2nd Edition is your guide to disability evaluation. This complement to the new, 5th Edition of the Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairments provides the step-by-step guidance you need to judge the degree to which impairments affect performance for specific jobs and whether disability is present. You will also understand how to use tests such as functional capacity evaluations and work hardening to assess and manage disabilities.
I. Introduction 1. Introduction to Disability and Impairment 2. The
Historical Development of Disability Programs in the U.S. 3. Economic Costs
of Disability 4. Federal Workers' Compensation Programs 5. State Workers'
Compensation Programs 6. Social Security Disability Programs 7. The
Medical-Legal Interface 8. The Physician as a Witness 9. Evidence-based
Medical Dispute Resolution 10. Causality 11. Contrasting the Standard,
Impairment, and Disability Examination II. Impairment 12. The
Impairment-Oriented Evaluation and Report A. Musculoskeletal Impairment
Assessment 13. Range-of-Motion Evaluation 14. The Role of Radiological
Imaging in the Orthopedic Impairment Evaluation 15. Cumulative Trauma
16. Joint Systems: Hand and Wrist 17. Joint Systems: Shoulder and Elbow
18. Joint Systems: Knee and Hip 19. Joint Systems: Foot and Ankle 20. Joint
Systems: Cervical Spine 21. Joint Systems: Thoracic and Lumbosacral Spine B.
Internal Medicine Impairment Assessment 22. Pulmonary Diagnostic Techniques
23. Cardiac Diagnostic Techniques 24. The Integrated Cardiopulmonary Exercise
Stress Test 25. Pulmonary Impairment 26. Cardiac Impairment 27. Peripheral
Vascular Impairment 28. Dermatological Impairment 29. Endocrinologic
Impairment 30. Gastrointestinal Impairment 31. Genitourinary Impairment
32. Hematological and Oncological Impairment C. Neurological Impairment
Assessment 33. Neurological Diagnostic Techniques 34. Central Nervous System
Impairment 35. Peripheral Nervous System Impairment 36. Visual Impairment
37. ENT Impairment D. Psychiatric Impairment Assessment 38. Psychiatric
Diagnostic Techniques 39. Evaluating and Rating Impairment Caused by Pain
40. Evaluating and Rating Impairment Caused by Stress 41. Psychological
Impairment 42. Functional Somatic Syndromes III. Disability A. Introductory
Concepts 43. The Disability Evaluation and Report 44. Resource Personnel Used
in a Disability Evaluation 45. The Role of the Vocational Rehabilitationist
46. Legal Issues of Off-Work 47. Overview of the Americans with Disabilities
Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act 48. Department of Labor Disability
Forms 49. Disability Under the FAA (Federal Aviation Agency) 50. Disability
Under the DOT (Department of Transportation) 51. The Generic Functional
Capacity Assessment 52. Can Joe Work? B. Musculoskeletal Disability
53. Introduction to Fitness-For-Duty 54. Ergonomic Basis for Job-Related
Strength Testing 55. The Functional Capacity Evaluation 56. Work Hardening
57. Orthpedic Disability - The Joints 58. Orthpedic Disability - The Spine
C. Internal Medicine Disability 59. Pulmonary Disability 60. Cardiac
Disability 61. Peripheral Vascular Disability 62. Dermatological Disability
63. Endocrinological Disability 64. Gastrointestinal Disability 65. Renal
Disability 66. Hematological and Oncological Disability D. Neurological
Disability 67. Central Nervous System Disability 68. Peripheral Nervous
System Disability E. Psychiatric Disability 69. Psychiatric Disability
Appendix A: Biostatistics and Epidemiology: A Review of Topics Found in this
book Appendix B: How to Fill Out Disability and Return-to-Work Forms Appendix
C: Resource Lists Appendix D
