By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefThe Oregon Chiropractic Association says the current method for measuring the impairment of permanently disabled workers is outdated and unreliable, and that a stakeholder panel should consider revising the methodology based on the latest evidence-based medicine.Chiropractors are asking the Management-Labor Advisory Committee to recommend scrapping the use of range-of-motion tests, which were adopted based on the revised third edition of the American Medical Association Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment published in 1989. Instead, the state sho...
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