Drozdzak v Accident Compensation Corporation (Work related gradual process) [2023] NZACC 157 [pdf, 442 KB]
...Games11. He agreed that young Olympic athletes in the study had higher than expected degeneration in their spines. Dr Robb said you can overtax the back in a variety of ways and he described the findings of this article as “quite scary”. [101] Dr Robb described this as a point in time study that does not give any background on the athletes. Dr Robb described the Wahlstrom study of a cohort of 288,926 Swedish construction workers as “very flawed” and said that a lot of con...