Abstract
Any clinician who sees patients with pain will likely see patients with disabilities. Because claims of disability affect the workplace, through federal and private insurance programs and injury litigation, these patients and their cases can be complicated, time consuming, and frustrating. This chapter will provide you an overview of the issues involved in disability-related medicine so you can guide and support your patients. Even though disability medicine often involves monetary payments, case workers, and insurers, the same multidisciplinary pain treatment concepts apply as they do to other chronic pain conditions.
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Vasudevan, S. (2015). Evaluation of Disability in Patients with Chronic Pain. In: Multidisciplinary Management of Chronic Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20322-5_7
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