How does chronic pain affect a persons occupation?

How does chronic pain affect a persons occupation?

Marc Darrow (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Joint Rehabilitation Sports Medical Center, Inc. ) gives expert video advice on: How does chronic pain affect a person psychologically?; Are analgesics effective for managing chronic pain? and more...

When a person has chronic pain, they're not going to be able to do their job as efficiently or as efficaciously as they did previous to their injury, or when the chronic pain just started. Some of the things that we see emerge are a person becoming depressed. They don't have the same "joie de la vie," or expression of life, that they used to have in their work and their family life, or anything else. So their occupation becomes something that becomes a burden on them, rather than something that's a joy or that they feel creative with.