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December 15, 2003

Lifting guidelines and RTW

The Ohio Bureau of Workers Comp and Ohio State University have teamed up on a research project that studies back injuries and reinjuries that can occur when people return to work. As an offshoot of the research, they developed an interactive lifting resource with guidelines intended to help employers and physicians in developing realistic transitional work programs. Considering that back injuries cuase more time away from work than anything besides the common cold, it's a resource worth checking out.

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