Abstract

The objective of the CSST’s physical, social and occupational rehabilitation program is to reinstate workers who have suffered a permanent injury to their physical or psychological integrity, or who have permanent functional limitations. By basing themselves on the Commission’s data, the authors produced an updated statistical portrait of workers undergoing rehabilitation. The person’s gender and age, the size of the companies, back pain and musculoskeletal disorders, relapse, and jobs in the secondary sector emerge as the main aspects characterizing the clients in the rehabilitation program.
All the gathered information is presented in 35 tables, which together provide a portrait as accurate as possible of Québec workers who suffered an occupational injury in 2001-2002, and who subsequently underwent rehabilitation. This type of document is a reference tool for researchers interested in rehabilitation and to which they can refer to orient their future work.