Controlling Chronic Pain in the Workplace

Abstract

Chronic pain can have a major effect on both workers and the workplace. Collaboration among workers, occupational health nurses, and specialist providers is important for ongoing management of mechanism-based therapies for chronic pain. This article examines collaborative care issues relative to nerve stimulation and intrathecal drug delivery systems.

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