Chronic pain management in the workplace

1. Occupational health nurses often have the opportunity and knowledge to assist clients with chronic pain management and help them progress toward a more active and fulfilling lifestyle. 2. Proper pain management is considered one of the major concerns of modern health care. Health providers continue to search for ways to explain, predict, and cure the misery caused by chronic pain. 3. Chronic pain management is a multifacted condition of both mind and body and is heavily influenced by environmental factors such a family, cultural norms, and job expectations. 4. Current chronic pain management strategies focus on the whole person, not just the painful symptoms experienced by the individual.