Returning to Work with Chronic Pain, Part 1: Focus on (Early) Return to Work
Emerging Problem in U.S.
- Five percent of U.S. budget expended on disability support payments by the SSA.
- Amount equivalent to 15 percent of U.S. federal budget expended on disability by public and private employers.
- Chronic pain = 43%
- Spinal pain disability = 22%
- SSA Disability Trust will run deficit 9 years before SSA Retirement Trust.