OBJECTIVE: To investigate return to work and cost-effectiveness of the addition of cognitive-behavioral
treatment to standard therapy compared to standard 3-week inpatient …

… Total scores of the baseline questionnaires were compared with the FFbH-R and the 8 scales
of the … The SRM of the ODI-G is slightly higher than that of the FFbH-R when health status …

The Sickness Impact Profile (SIP) is gaining increasing popularity in clinical and epidemiological
studies, assessing health status or the impact of therapeutic interventions. The SIP was …

… Criterion validity showed high (negative) correlations between the questionnaires for the
three spinal areas on the one side and the FFbH-R and the SF-36 on the other. The SRM for the …

Chronic low-back pain is a frequent symptom causing considerable socioeconomic costs in
many countries. Outpatient treatment of low-back pain often remains unsatisfactory. In our …

Evaluation of different therapy programmes, eg inpatient rehabilitation, in rheumatoid
arthritis requires valid, reliable and sensitive instruments describing patient health status. …

Developed a modified version of the German Multidimensional Pain Scale (MPS), which
includes 4 additional hypothetical factors of the language of pain, for further enhancement of the …

In order to evaluate the objectivity and validity of radiographic parameters in rheumatoid
arthritis (RA) we studied 56 patients with definite RA. Inter-observer variation was assessed …

A pain management program is presented which enables patients to reduce pain by means
of relaxation and attention-diversion, etc. The problems arising from applying a …

Low back-pain is one of the most frequent symptoms and its chronicity causes considerable
socioeconomic costs in many countries. To evaluate the efficiency of therapeutic …