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Category: Workers’ Compensation

How are my physical restrictions determined?

November 16, 2014
Oxner
There is no hard and fast rule as to how the doctor gives you restrictions. Some doctors will order a Functional Capacities Evaluation. They will review the recommendations from the FCE and either adopt those as your permanent restrictions or modify them. Other doctors will use their personal judgment regarding what you can do. Many […]
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I am not depressed!

November 27, 2014
Oxner
It would be difficult to overstate the number of clients who have come to us over the years frustrated when a doctor or therapist suggested they were depressed. In our society depression is often seen as a character flaw, a weakness, or an excuse. Without doubt, these injured workers are genuinely offended that someone is […]
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What is conservative treatment?

December 2, 2014
Oxner
One medical lexicon defines conservative treatment as “a course of therapeutic action designed to avoid harm, with less possibility of benefit than more risky options.” What’s that mean to you? At the heart of it conservative treatment is an effort to make you better without taking drastic, immediate steps like surgery. Yes, a surgery could […]
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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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