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I'm having communication strain with back pain
By: Dr Mary Wyatt and Tom Barton, 27 April 2010, Back, Treatment approaches
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I've just recently completed my Occupational Therapy degree in 2009 and am now working with a rehab provider in Tasmania. It's been a pretty steep learning curve but I am using this site to help me through the initial RTW teething phase. I have found that I have had good success rate providing injured workers with lower back pain education, manual handling education and OT based task analysis of the daily tasks they are completing.   Usua...
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