Glossary

Musculoskeletal Disorder (MSD)

Any disease, injury, or significant impairment to muscles, bones, joints, and supporting connective (soft) tissues.

• AIDS


• Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)


• Anxiety disorder


• Assistive Technology


• Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)


• Auditory Discrimination


• Bipolar disorder


• Blindness


• Braille


• Brain Injury


• Cancer


• Chemotherapy


• Cognitive Disabilities


• Confidential medical record


• Construct validity


• Content validity


• Criterion-related validity


• Currently engaging in the illegal use of drugs


• Demyelination


• Diabetes


• Direct Threat


• Disability


• Disability management


• Disability-Based Distinction


• Disability-Related Inquiry


• Dissociative disorder


• Diversity


• Drug


• Drug and alcohol abuse


• Drug Free Workplace Act


• Dysgraphia


• Dyslexia


• Dyspraxia


• Epilepsy


• Equivalent Job


• Essential job functions


• Exacerbation


• Fair Representation


• Family and Medical Leave Act


• Fibromyalgia


• Generalized seizure


• HIV


• Hyperglycemia


• Hypoglycemia


• Illegal use of drugs


• Immunotherapy


• Impairment


• Insulin


• KSA


• Learning disability


• Light Duty


• Lupus


• Major depression


• Major life activities


• Medical Examination


• Mental Impairment


• Mitigating Measures


• Multiple Sclerosis (MS)


• Musculoskeletal Disorder (MSD)


• National Labor Relations Act


• Occupational Health and Safety Act


• Omnibus Transportation Employees Testing Act


• Osteoarthritis


• Partial seizure


• Personality disorder


• Physical impairment


• Post-traumatic stress disorders


• Pure power test


• Pure speed test


• Qualified Individual with a Disability


• Qualified Interpreter


• Reasonable Accommodation


• Relay Service


• Rheumatoid arthritis


• Schizophrenia


• Seizure


• Serious Health Condition


• Spinal cord injury (SCI)


• Substantially limits


• TDD


• Tonic-Clonic Seizure


• TTY


• Type 1 Diabetes


• Type 2 Diabetes


• Undue Hardship


• Validity


• Visual Discrimination


• Visually Impaired (or Low Vision)

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