Christopher A. Rothfusz's scientific contributions

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Article
This study sought to determine the impact of time to surgery on clinical outcomes in patients with spondylolisthesis in the workers' compensation (WC) population. There is conflicting evidence regarding the effect of time to surgery on patients with spondylolisthesis. Patients receiving WC are known to have worse outcomes following spine surgery co...

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... Our findings concerning the workplace relations, fear avoidance beliefs and work expectancy, indicates that many DP-applicants may lack incentives and motivation, 16 which may signal an underlying RTW problem. One strategy to try to improve RTW could be to reduce waiting time for surgery, 6 to prevent chronification of pain and working disability. If alternative conservative treatments may be more effective for RTW, and whether risk factors at the workplace, negative expectations and fear avoidance beliefs are modifiable factors is uncertain. ...