Patients on Medical Leave for Low Back Pain Can Benefit from Being Advised to Stay Active

Workers on medical leave due to low back pain who are advised to stay active are more likely to return to work, according to a new study in the Aug.1, 2012, issue of the journal Spine.

“Combined counseling and disability evaluation by a medical advisor results in a higher return to work rate due to a lower sick leave recurrence as compared to disability evaluation alone,” say study authors Marc Du Bois, MD, and Peter Donceel, PhD, of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. For more information, click here to read the full release.