Pain Rehabilitation and Work Participation

Loss of work participation is the largest contributor to societal impact. Interdisciplinary rehabilitation can be an effective and cost-effective intervention to reduce the impact of pain, however, mean effect sizes are modest, and its working mechanisms are poorly understood.

In order to better serve patients with chronic pain, we need to study underlying mechanisms and to get more insight in ‘what works for whom and why?’ Because pain is multifaceted and because it can be a disease on its own or a symptom secondary to another condition, we collaborate with many other UMCG disciplines and research groups such as: 

• EXPAND – Extremities
• EXPAND – SPRINT
• UMCG Pain Centre
• UMCG Movement sciences SMART
• Social medicine and public health
• Epidemiology