Dr. Rafael Levin and Dr. Nomaan Ashraf are fellowship trained orthopedic spine surgeons, partners at Comprehensive Spine Care (CSC). Their combined 25 years of clinical practice experience has been primarily dedicated to evaluating and treating spine injured workers. Having recognized the existing void in training, education, and practical understanding of workers compensation issues among their peers, they have decided to share their clinical experience and evidence-based expertise in this well-overdue publication. Medical and non-medical professionals, involved in the evaluation and treatment, or the processing and litigation of work related spine injury claims, will find the information provided in this book to be both helpful on a practical level, and thought provoking on an intellectual level. While the authors realize the reader will not find all the answers in this text, they are confident that he or she will at the very least gain from their experience and develop a productive framework to keep questioning conventional wisdom and seeking better explanations and remedies for the spine-injured worker.
