title: Occupational disorders and the management of chronic pain.
abstract: Chronic pain affects a small proportion of patients with an occupational injury but can result in astronomical costs for future medical care, indemnity, and social service utilization. To provide adequate treatment, medical practitioners must make a conceptual shift from the disease-intervention model to visualizing chronic pain as a multifactorial syndrome with alterable components. Focusing on deconditioning and disability provides a means to subjective and objective improvement for these patients and gives a better measure of therapeutic success.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA.
authors.forename: P B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Polatin
authors.forename: T G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Mayer
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy; D006801:Humans; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000628:therapy; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000628:therapy*; D010146:Pain / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D059408:Pain Management; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities