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May 19, 2024

Occupational prognosis of workers suffering from back injury

Abstract

More than 80% of the costs associated with back pain in workers are attributed to a minority of cases requiring a work interruption of more than six months. Over a period of two years, the authors followed some 1,000 workers suffering from back pain, in order to better understand the functional consequences of spinal disorders and to analyze the relative importance of the determinants of a return to work in good health. This work also allowed a simple predictive tool to be constructed and validated that makes it easier to identify people who have a high risk of prolonged absenteeism so that they can be rapidly offered the appropriate interventions and so that the resources devoted to spinal disorders can be more effectively used.

Produced Under this Project

  • Maux de dos
    Mieux intervenir pour un retour au travail en bonne santé Volume 17, n0 4

  • Establishing a prognostic for low back problems

    Rossignol M.

    Source :

    Chronic musculoskeletal injuries in the workplace, D. Ranney (ed.), Montréal, WB Saunders Co., 1997, p. 193-215

  • Determinants of «Return to Work in Good Health» among workers with back pain consulting in primary care settings: a 2-year prospective study

    Dionne C. E., Larocque I., Bourbonnais R., Frémont P., Rossignol M., Stock S. R., Demers E.

    Source :

    in International Forum VI for Primary Care Research on Low Back Pain (May 22-24, 2003 : Linköping, Sweden), 2003, p. 73

  • Psychosocial environment of work and the evolution of back-related functional limitations: a one-year prospective study

    Leroux I., Dionne C. E., Bourbonnais R.

    Source :

    in International Forum VI for Primary Care Research on Low Back Pain (May 22-24, 2003 : Linköping, Sweden), 2003, p. 59

  • Facteurs psychosociaux au travail et incapacités fonctionnelles reliées aux maux de dos

    Leroux I., Dionne C. E., Bourbonnais R.

    Source :

    in Congrès de l'Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences / ACFAS (71e : 19-23 mai, 2003 : Rimouski, Canada), 2003

  • Is psychological distress really useful in predicting long-term back pain outcome? A validation study

    Dionne C. E.

    Source :

    in 10th World Congress on Pain (10th : August 12-14, 2002 : Montréal, Canada), 2002, p. 344-345

  • Facteurs psychosociaux au travail et incapacités fonctionnelles reliées aux maux de dos

    Leroux I.

    Source :

    Mémoire de maîtrise. Québec, Faculté de médecine, Université Laval, 2002, 126 p.

  • Prédire les incapacités associées aux maux de dos

    Dionne C.

    Source :

    Journée scientifique sur les maux de dos du REPAR / Institut de réadaptation de Montréal (28 mai 1999 : Montréal, Canada), 1999

  • Job strain and back-related functional limitations

    Dionne C. E., Bourbonnais R., Frémont P., Rossignol M., Stock S. R., Mondor M.

    Source :

    in Back Pain and Disability-Unraveling the Puzzle : CIRPD International Conference, (November 30-December 2, 2000 : New York, USA), 2000 : p. 148

  • Psychosocial job factors and the one-year evolution of back-related functional limitations

    Leroux I., Dionne C. E., Bourbonnais R.

    Source :

    Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, vol. 30, no 1, 2004, p. 47-55

  • Predicting return to work among workers with back pain resulting in primary care settings : a 2-year prospective study

    Dionne C., Larocque I., Bourbonnais R., Frémont P., Rossignol M., Stock S.

    Source :

    in Fifth International Scientific Conference on Prevention of Workrelated Musculoskeletal Disorders PREMUS, (5th : July 11-15, 2004 : Zurich, Switzerland) 2004

  • Predicting "return to work in good health" among workers with back pain consulting in primary care settings : a 2-year prospective study

    Dionne C., Larocque I., Bourbonnais R., Frémont P., Rossignol M., Stock S. R.

    Source :

    in 37th Annual Society for Epidemiologic Research Meeting (37th : June 15-18, 2004 : Salt Lake City, Utah), 2004

  • Predicting "return to work in good health" among workers with back pain consulting in primary care settings : a 2-year prospective study

    Dionne C. E., Larocque I., Bourbonnais R., Frémont P., Rossignol M., Stock S. R.

    Source :

    American Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 159, no 11, 2004, p. S80

  • A clinical return-to-work rule for patients with back pain

    Dionne C. E., Bourbonnais R., Frémont P., Rossignol M., Stock S. R., Larocque I.

    Source :

    Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 172, no 12, 2005, p. 1559-1567

  • Psychological distress confirmed as predictor of long-term, back-related functional limitations in primary care settings

    Dionne C. E.

    Source :

    Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 58, no 7, 2005, p. 714-718

  • An algorithm comprising 7 baseline variables predicted the 2 year work disability status in non-specific back pain

    Dionne C. E., Bourbonnais R., Frémont P., Rossignol M., Stock S. R., Larocque I.

    Source :

    ACP Journal Club, vol. 143, no 3, 2005, p. 81

  • An algorithm comprising 7 baseline variables predicted the 2 year work disability status in non-specific back pain

    Dionne C. E., Bourbonnais R., Frémont P., Rossignol M., Stock S. R., Larocque I.

    Source :

    Evidence-Based Medicine, vol. 10, no 6, 2005, p. 187

  • A clinical prediction rule for return to work among patients with back pain

    Dionne C. E., Bourbonnais R., Frémont P., Rossignol M., Stock S., Larocque I.

    Source :

    Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 172, no 12, 2005, p. 1559-1567

  • Relationships between neck pain and work: What can we learn from gender-based analyses of the 1998 Québec Social and Health Survey?

    Stock S., Tissot F., Messing K.

    Source :

    in International Symposium on Epidemiology in Occupational Health, (18th : September 11-14, 2005 : Bergen, Norway), 2005

  • Relationships between neck pain and work: What can we learn from gender-based analyses of the 1998 Quebec Social and Health Survey?

    Stock S., Tossot F., Messing K.

    Source :

    in Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health / CARWH (May 15-17, 2005 : Vancouver, Canada), 2005

  • "Return to work in good health" among back pain patients in primary care settings: 3-month outcome in the RAMS-Prognosis study

    Dionne C. E., Bourbonnais R., Frémont P., Rossignol M., Stock S. R., Nouwen A., Blanchette C.

    Source :

    In Quality Care in Low-Back Pain : How many does it take to tango? : Montréal International Forum V for Primary Care Research on Low back pain (5th : May, 10-11, 2002 : Montréal, Canada), 2002

  • Obstacles to and facilitators of return to work after work-disabling back pain : the worker's perspective

    Dionne C.E., Bourbonnais R., Frémont P., Rossignol M., Stock S.R., Laperrière È.

    Source :

    Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, vol. 23, no 2, 2013, p. 280-289

Additional Information

Type: Project
Number: 0097-0610
Status: Completed
Year of completion: 2003
Research Field: Occupational Rehabilitation
Team:
  • Clermont Dionne (Université Laval)
  • Renée Bourbonnais (Université Laval)
  • Pierre Frémont (Université Laval)
  • Michel Rossignol (CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l'Île-de-Montréal - Hôpital général juif de Montréal)
  • Susan Stock (Université McGill)