back injury

collocation in English

meaningsofbackandinjury

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back
noun[C]
uk
/bæk/us
/bæk/
the inside or outside part of an object, vehicle, building, etc. that is furthest from ...
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injury
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɪn.dʒər.i/us
/ˈɪn.dʒər.i/
physical harm or damage to someone's body caused by an accident or ...
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(Definition ofbackandinjuryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Abackinjuryin middle life ended his skiing, but he retained his love of mountains.
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For example, in one patient, we may see complex medication issues relating not only to the current cancer, but also to recurrent pain f rom abackinjury.
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The policeman had sustained a quite seriousbackinjuryand broken bones in his arm, and he was still having physiotherapy treatment nine months later.
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Just before then, his father had sustained a seriousbackinjuryin a pit accident.
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Claims in respect of back pain andbackinjurymay, however, be successful under the accident provisions of the industrial injuries scheme.
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One woman told me that she was suffering from abackinjuryand took her son along to the doctor's receptionist.
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Over that period about 200,000 sufferedbackinjury, at least in part because of the inadequacy of the regulations.
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A year or so afterwards, the effect of hisbackinjurymay force him to take on light work.
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At present only limited provision exists in the district for rehabilitation treatment of people with disabling diseases, such as rheumatic conditions, strokes andbackinjury.
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The provision makes no differentiation between those people and someone who may have abackinjury.
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The woman in question had abackinjuryand was wheeled into the consultation begging all the time not to be seen by students.
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We know the prevalence ofbackinjury; it is common.
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I once had three months off work as the result of abackinjury.
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Both pilots ejected, one suffering abackinjury.
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A constituent found occasional work as a film extra, despite having a severebackinjury.
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That was from a man who had served his country loyally by serving in the mines and who sustained abackinjurywhile pursuing his occupation.
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Only last year that illustration in 1976 was emphasised by a constituent of mine who found herself in exactly the same position, and subsequently suffered abackinjuryat work.
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They asked him a series of basic questions to assess his state, one of which was whether he could move his toes—a way of testing forbackinjury.
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There will be no notification, no investigation, and no remedial action to prevent furtherbackinjury—the whole purpose of the factory inspection system, built up over the years.
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Abackinjury, for instance, might make it impossible for a nurse to perform the normal nursing task, but that nurse might still be able to deal with telephone callers.
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