Abstract
Pain is a puzzle to those who have it, those who treat it, and those who seek to understand it (6, 19, 23). Chronic pain is not only a puzzle, it is a personal, social, medical, and legal disaster for many who suffer it. Chronic pain is probably the greatest single health problem in the United States today in terms of the number of people involved and the financial costs. There are between 800,000 and 1,000,000 people immobilized by pain each day. Estimating $40 a day, as does the National Institute of Health, this adds up to $13 billion dollars a year in health-care costs associated with this problem (7). Viewed in terms of the individual patient, the costs of treating a person with low back pain may easily exceed $100,000 (8). A patient with low back pain who has been out of work for six months has only a 50% chance of ever returning to work (29).
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Roberts, A.H. (1981). The Behavioral Treatment of Pain. In: Ferguson, J.M., Taylor, C.B. (eds) The Comprehensive Handbook of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7280-6_9
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