Rule 17 and the Medical Treatment Guideline Exhibits were revised on September 29, 2005, with an effective date of January 1, 2006. Those revisions were non-substantive changes, i.e. reformatting, renumbering and correcting typographical errors. The 9/29/05 revisions did not include any analysis of medical literature or substantive update of the rules.
The exhibits for Rule 17 are available in both MS Word and PDF (print friendly) formats. For ease in both copying and pasting text, please use the MS Word version of these documents. In the PDF documents, there is rapid navigation within each document by using the links provided within the Table of Contents. To view a desired section within each exhibit, simply click on the corresponding heading within the Table of Contents. This will take you to the corresponding page in the pdf document. To return to the Table of Contents at any time, simply click the button "Return to Table of Contents" in the upper-right corner of each page.
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Information concerning Blocks for Sympathetically Mediated Pain may also be found under the Treatment Guideline Desk Reference Tools page above.
Medical Treatment Guideline |
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Introduction |
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Exhibit 1 - Low Back Pain (LBP) |
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Exhibit 3 - Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS) |
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Exhibit 4 - Shoulder Injury (SHO) |
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Exhibit 5 - Cumulative Trauma Conditions (CTC) (Includes Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Guidelines) |
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Exhibit 6 - Lower Extremity (LXT) |
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Exhibit 7 - Complex Regional Pain Syndrome/Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (CRPS/RSD)* |
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Exhibit 8 - Cervical Spine Injury (CSI) |
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Exhibit 9 - Chronic Pain Disorder (CPD) |
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Exhibit 10 - Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) |
