I THINK THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS THIS IS A PROBLEM. IF THEY ADMIT THAT the job is causing pain that interfers with your work and then spills over into your non-work life, and then the doctor says it is not responding to treatment and the only thing left is to be put on a job that gets away from the problem, then the government has a problem. not many jobs left with no keyboarding factor. they hate it if an employee has to be put on disability retirment because they can not find a job that he/she can do. it is easier to just deny that a problem is work related. -----Original Message----- From: Bobby G. Greer, Ph. D. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:01 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: my surgery In a message dated 2/19/02 6:26:39 AM, [log in to unmask] writes: >it is hard to get the government to accept a work-rekated problem like >this. >so i am filing that today, or at least starting the process. Good Luck on getting compensation for the work related injuries, Ken. I wrote a review of repetitive motion injuries one. They are they coming disability(despite what the Supreme Court says!) with all the keyboards out there and that includes AB's as well. Bobby