The 19th Annual AAOS Workers` Compensation and Musculoskeletal Injuries 2017 is dedicated to clinical treatment to incorporate current legal, administrative, ethical, and insurance issues into handling workers’ compensation cases.
Topics
- The administrative and legal requirements of workers` compensation or medical liability cases
- Patients with musculoskeletal pain resulting from workplace injury and formulate a treatment plan with appropriate return -to-work guidelines
- How to avoid unnecessary disability
- Surgical and nonsurgical treatment protocols for workplace injuries
- Report writing and develop new skills in office management for work-related injuries
- Familiarity with impairment evaluations and reports
- Science to document return -to-work decisions
Who should Attend
Orthopaedic surgeons and health care professionals.
