Addressed to specialist and primary doctors and nurses, other health professionals, attorneys, the insurance industry, government employees, and others who share a concern for the welfare of people with regional musculoskeletal disorders that relate to their ability to work. Discusses such matters as backache at home and work, the axial syndromes, workers' compensation schemes and regional back or leg pain, disability determination, and plaints of the aged worker and the working poor. Updates the first edition with new medical information and the deterioration of labor-management relations and the distribution of wealth over the previous five years.