title: [Chronic musculoskeletal pain--aspects for assessment in private disability compensation (I)].
abstract: Pain is the most frequent symptom of diseases of the musculoskeletal system. Moreover pain is the most frequent complaint in applications for governmental or private disability compensation. Since pain remains a subjective sensory perception, it is the task of assessment to prove all the proband's information for consistency. Both multidimensionality of chronic pain and a high impact of psychosomatic comorbidity imply that not only orthopaedic and traumatologic but as well psychosomatic competence for legal assessment is required.
authors.affiliation: Orthopädische Universitätsklinik Heidelberg.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schiltenwolf
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kühn
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D015897:Comorbidity; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D004608:Eligibility Determination / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D018868:Insurance, Disability / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D009140:Musculoskeletal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis