title: [DGRW-Update: musculo-skeletal diseases].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Orthopedic rehabilitation is a major entity in rehabilitation. Due to coming demographic changes and its challenges concerning mobility of elderly patients it will increase. The criticism on orthopedic rehabilitation in Germany focuses on its missing evidence in therapeutic eff ectiveness especially in chronic low back pain. This overall-criticism is actually no more valid as there are a number of studies showing eff ectiveness of orthopedic treatment in rehabilitation if psychosocial comorbidities are respected and treatment is focussed on occupational training and eintegration.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This overview describes the actual situation in orthopedic rehabilitation and its research.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The need for orthopedic rehabilitation will increase over the next years due to demographic changes. Important fi elds in orthopedic rehabilitation research are chronic low back pain, new rehabilitation models with focus on occupational reintegration, rehabilitation in elderly and following joint surgery as well as the analysis of health-care-system changes due to disease related groups.
authors.affiliation: Reha-Klinikum Bad Rothenfelde, Klinik Münsterland, Bad Rothefelde, Germany. greitemann@klinikmuensterland.de
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Greitemann
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dibbelt
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fröhlich
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Niemeyer
mesh_terms: D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D009140:Musculoskeletal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000639:trends*; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000639:trends*