Background Physical capacity tasks (ie, observer-administered outcome measures that
comprise a standardized activity) are useful for assessing functioning in patients with low …

The physical performance of chronic pain patients is of major concern both for their
assessment and for treatment evaluation. However, there are few widely used physical tests …

Study Design. Historical cohort study. Objectives. We investigated the ability of the
Isernhagen Work Systems' Functional Capacity Evaluation to predict sustained recovery …

Physicians, employers, insurers, and benefits adjudicators often rely upon functional
capacity evaluations (FCEs) to determine musculoskeletal capacity to perform physical work …

Background and Purpose. Assessing disability is important, and numerous interviewer-
assisted and self-report questionnaires are used to accomplish this task. These …

Cross sectional study, performed in an outpatient university based pain rehabilitation setting.
To analyze the relationship between psychological factors (psychosocial distress …

Over the past 20 years, there have been numerous attempts to identify methodologies that
are capable of the determination of sincerity of effort during muscle testing. The ensuing …

Abstract The Self-Efficacy Scale (SES) has been found to predict isokinetic performance
better than anthropometric variables. This study tests the predictive power of SES further …

What has plagued the evaluation process in this area has been the level of agreement in the
wide variation in the measures used to document a construct such as pain, as well as …

The present study utilized recently developed diagnostic tests that permit recognition of
functional deficits in spine mobility, trunk strength, endurance, coordination, and dynamic …