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Category: Workers’ Compensation

What’s the difference between an MRI and an X-RAY?

December 10, 2014
Oxner
X-rays are inexpensive, quick, and usually done right in the doctor’s office. They use a theoretically dangerous ionizing radiation to create images of bones and dense tissue. In the small doses that you receive during a few x-rays there’s probably nothing to worry about. An MRI is expensive (30-40 times as expensive as an x-ray), […]
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What is evidence based medicine?

December 22, 2014
Oxner
This could be answered on two levels. Mind you our answers, being those of workers’ compensation lawyers, may not be the answers which doctors would give you. The first level, that of medical journals and the like, evidence based medicine is an attempt to make medicine more of a system using the “current best evidence […]
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What is attendant care?

January 5, 2015
Oxner
In it’s simplest form it’s what it sounds like: someone who attends to, or pays attention to, you. When you’ve got the flu it’s good to have someone who will check on you, get you some medicine, and bring you something to drink when you want it. That’s what loved ones do. Now say you […]
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What is pain management?

January 18, 2015
Oxner
Wikipedia gives as good a definition as any: Pain management is a branch of medicine employing an interdisciplinary approach for easing the suffering and improving the quality of live of those living with pain. That’s well and good but what does it mean in the context of workers’ compensation? We usually see pain management coming […]
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What is a functional capacities evaluation?

February 4, 2015
Oxner
A Functional Capacities Evaluation, or FCE, is theoretically a test that fairly and accurately evaluates a person’s capacity to work at certain levels over a lengthy period of time. There are a number of different FCE systems in place but they share certain things in common. First, a therapist will likely explain what is expected […]
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