ABSTRACT
REDUCING THE IMPACT OF LOW BACK DISORDERS (LBD) requires the best efforts of those experts in pre-
vention together with those in rehabilitation. Rehabilitation approaches will not work well if the
patient/worker remains exposed to the cause — hence, optional rehabilitation must incorporate excel-
lent prevention or ergonomics. By the same token, prevention involves not only primary prevention but,
since a problem often pre-exists, secondary level prevention is also required. Thus the best prevention
efforts must understand and involve evidence-based principles of rehabilitation. The purpose of this
chapter is to illustrate this symbiosis and compliment the ergonomics concepts explained in other chap-
ters with some notion of rehabilitation exercise for LBDs.
