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Working with Musculoskeletal Pain
- Source :
- British Journal of Pain; June 2009, Vol. 3 Issue: 1 p6-10, 5p
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- •Pain has a significant impact on work in terms of presenteeism, sickness absence, and long-term incapacity for work•A bio-psychosocial approach is required in understanding pain-related disability and incapacity for work•Long-term absence from work is associated with a number of negative outcomes including; poverty, social exclusion and poorer physical and psychosocial well-being•Return to work can improve recovery for people with musculoskeletal complaints and pain•Interventions to reduce the impact of pain on work can operate at clinical, worker, workplace, and wider systems levels•A broader whole systems approach to pain management needs to be adopted, with a greater focus on work retention as well as rehabilitation
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20494637 and 20494645
- Volume :
- 3
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Pain
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- ejs42156883
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/204946370900300103