MRI of Work Related Injuries

Many occupations involve injuries similar to those encountered in sports, e.g., tennis elbow, rotator cuff tear. However, when workers who perform repetitive tasks on the job experience musculoskeletal injury without any episode of acute trauma, conservative treatment following clinical evaluation may not alleviate pain. Author Loralie Ma, M.D., Ph.D., lays out for the practicing clinician how to identify the appropriate first imaging test for the evaluation of work related musculoskeletal injury. She describes the use of MRI in evaluating the lumbar spine, and shows the referring physician how to recognize the type of injury for which MRI of the wrist and hand may be helpful. With the help of numerous images to illustrate the types of repetitive motions that most commonly cause work-related musculoskeletal injury, the referring physician can quickly scan through Spine, Shoulder, Elbow, Hand, Knee, and Ankle for appropriate recommendations on the use of MRI.

The “Radiology Guidance for Referring Physicians” series of ebooks offers practicing clinicians - both primary care doctors and specialists - a quick and easy reference to over 100 distinct conditions, and how state-of-the-art imaging should be applied within the context of diagnosis, preoperative staging and therapy monitoring
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Authored by board certified radiologists who also teach at the finest medical schools in the U.S. and abroad, each ebook is presented in a clear and concise manner meant to be read in less than an hour, yet contains all the necessary information with which to base a decision on when to order advanced imaging studies for the particular disease process under review.

The “Radiology Guidance for Referring Physicians” series offers doctors the opportunity to access crucial information quickly and economically as cases present in daily practice, without the need to invest in a large, all-encompassing (and expensive) tome.