" Improving function is one of the major goals of any multidisciplinary team treating patients
with chronic pain." This rather obvious statement, repeated many times in the literature …

Objective: The pain physician is often asked to establish the medical impairment of the
chronic pain patient (CPP) and from that determination ascertain the work capacity of the …

Background and Purpose: Patients with low back pain are often administered a Functional
Capacity Evaluation (FCE) to determine levels of physical functioning at the conclusion of …

The environment surrounding the functional capacity evaluation (FCA) is complex and
determined by both external factors as well as those specific to the testing situation. In this …

Individuals presenting with pain frequently report associated disability. Both pain and
disability are complex phenomena. The bio-psycho-social complexity of pain and the …

The physical performance of chronic pain patients is of major concern both for their
assessment and for treatment evaluation. However, there are few widely used physical tests …

Lakke SE, Wittink H, Geertzen JH, van der Schans CP, Reneman MF. Factors that affect
functional capacity in patients with musculoskeletal pain: a Delphi study among scientists …

Background Physicians have difficulty predicting patients' occupational limitations, abilities,
and success from clinical evaluation (CE) of pathology and impairments, especially in the …

A new quantitative method for measuring functional abilities of chronic low-back pain
patients is introduced. The method is based upon a psychophysical model referred to as …

Abstract Function, Impairment, and Disability are words in which many physicians have little
interest. Most physicians are trained to deal with structure and physiology and not function …