This issue of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Clinics serves as a comprehensive text on pain management. All anatonical areas are extensively evaluated and treatment options given. Pain that commonly follows injury or illness can impair physical, psychological, social, and vocational functions.
This issue emphasises the need for multidisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain and for attention to the physical, psychological, social, vocational, recreational, and other functional aspects of persons with pain-related disability.