Leading international experts have contributed to this multidisciplinary approach to industrial injury, prevention and management where the team is the theme.

The book provides up to date chapters from medical experts, researchers, ergonomists, vocational rehabilitation consultants, therapists, occupational health consultants and shop floor practitioners.

Authoritative, concise and very practical this handbook will update all physiotherapists and those working with industrial injuries in the workplace.

Dr David Worth PhD is the Leader of the Scientific Committee for Occupational Injury at the Australian Physiotherapy Association. A physiotherapist and senior consultant he works for a company specialising in the prevention and treatment of occupational injury.

Contributors:

Christine Aickin, B App Sc (Physio) MPH (OH), Workability, East Balmain, NSW, Australia

N Ayres, Combrook Pty Ltd, Sydney, NSW, Australia

J S Baines, Paradise Health Clinic, Paradise, SA, Australia

T Becht, 2nd Field Hospital Rehabilitation Unit, Gallipoli Barracks, Enoggera, Qld, Australia

Jane Bell, Grad.Dip. Phys. MCSP MAPA J C Bell and Asociates Pty Ltd

Margaret Bullock, AM, FTSE, PhD, BScApp, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Kerry Butler, Dip.Phys, Grad.Dip Health Sc, Health Dynamics, Western Australia, Australia

David Caple, Director, David Caple & Associates P/L, East Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia

Heather Dale, PO Box 142, Thuringowa Central, Qld, Australia

J J Ford, School of Physiotherapy, Melbourne University, Carlton, Vic, Australia

Dr Ian Gardner, MBBS MPH FAFOM FACOEM, consultant occupational physician, Lindfield, NSW, Australia

Ann Grant, BAppSci (Physio) Grad.Dip.Rehab.Studies, Grad.Dip.Health Admin, Royal & SunAlliance Workers Compensation Ltd, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

E Inness, BAppSc (OT), MHPEd, School of Occupation & Leisure Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

Asa Kilbom, Swedish National Institute for Working Life, Solna, Sweden

E D Marshall, BAppSc (Phty), Grad Dip Paed Phty, MPH School of Physiotherapy, The University of Sydney, Lidcombe, NSW, Australia

Barbara McPhee, MPH (OH), Dip Phty, The OH&S Services Network P/L, Ryde, NSW, Australia

M McKie, BA Honours Psychology, IRS - Total Injury Management, Melbourne, Victoria

Libby MacWhirter, South Pacific Tyres, Somerton, Vic, Australia

Steve Milanese, Centre for Physiotherapy Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Ruth Mitchell, consultant in Injury Management and Occupational Safety & Health, Pyrmont, NSW, Australia

Dr Maurice Oxenburgh, Occupational Health & Ergonomics Consultant

R Pashen, State Insurance Manager, Woolworths, Queensland, Australia

Robyn Rankin, MSc BAppSc (Physio), Rankin Occupational Safety & Health, Mile End, SA, Australia

Paul Rothmore, BAppSc, Consultant Physiotherapist (OH&S), Repatriation General Hospital, Daw Park, Adelaide, Australia

Eva Schonstein, BAppSc (phty) MHPEd (UNSW) Department of Behavioural Sciences and School of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Heath Sciences, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

Robert Sellars, FCE Systems (NZ) Ltd, Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand

Pat Smart, Resolutions Pty Ltd, Toorak, Vic, Australia

Leon Straker, BAppSc (physio), MSc (ergonomics) PhD (ergonomics) School of Physiotherapy, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA Australia

N Sulley, Royal District Nursing Service, St Kilda, Vic, Australia

S A Sypek, School of Physiotherapy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA

Grace Szeto, Department of Rehabilitatopm Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Pamela Veal, Mercantile Mutual Insurance, NSW Workers Compensation Ltd, Strathfield, NSW, Australia

D R Worth PhD, Rankin Occupational Safe