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Definitions and : are based on the accepted evidence-based consensus of the International Classification of Functioning (ICF), Disability and Health [1]. The ICF categorizes health conditions and disability based on functional metrics in comparison to the International Classification of Disease (ICD) that focuses mainly on disease-specific conditions [2].

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, 10029, NY, USA

    Kathy Aligene MD

  2. Pain Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, 1214 5th Ave, APT 40F, New York, 10029, NY, USA

    Akshay S. Garg MD

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, 3400 Bainbridge Ave, LL400, Bronx, NY, 10128, USA

    Karina Gritsenko MD

  4. Anesthesiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Box 1010, KCC 8th Floor, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, 10029, NY, USA

    Yury Khelemsky MD

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Correspondence to Karina Gritsenko MD .

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    R. Jason Yong

  2. Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Michael Nguyen

  3. Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Ehren Nelson

  4. Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Health Care Center at Chestnut Hill, Center for Perioperative Research, Sedation for Interventional Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

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Aligene, K., Garg, A.S., Gritsenko, K., Khelemsky, Y. (2017). Work Rehabilitation. In: Yong, R., Nguyen, M., Nelson, E., Urman, R. (eds) Pain Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43133-8_110

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