Does “occupational” disease cover orthopedic and neurological conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome or degenerative joint or disc disease?
Almost any medical condition can be considered compensable under the workers’ compensation law, if it is determined by a Judge of Compensation that your work exposure was a material contributing factor to either the “causation, aggravation, acceleration or exacerbation” of the medical condition in question. For example, if a jackhammer operator, carpenter, secretary, casino dealer, cocktail server, food server, etc., repetitively flexes/extends his/her wrist as part of his/her routine occupational duties, the development of carpal tunnel syndrome may very well be a compensable condition depending upon the proofs. If a construction laborer, warehouse person, delivery person, housekeeper, nurse, stocker, driver, or other worker routinely lifts, bends, flexes, exerts and rotates his or her spine and develops a herniated disc or degenerative spine pain, such a condition can also be considered a compensable condition, depending upon the proofs.
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