Impact of persistent pain symptoms on work absence, health status and employment 18 months following disabling work-related injury or illness.

Kathleen G Dobson Cameron A Mustard Nancy Carnide Andrea D Furlan Peter M Smith

Published in: Occupational and environmental medicine (2022)

Persistent pain symptom prevalence 18 months postinjury is high among workers disabled by a work-related injury and associated with substantial functional impairment and longer wage replacement benefit duration.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
pain management
neuropathic pain
risk factors
spinal cord
mental health
sleep quality
mental illness