“…A growing body of literature continues to demonstrate that pain rehabilitation programs improve physical functioning, pain severity, and mood among patients with chronic pain (Bailey, Kurklinsky, Sletten, & Osborne, 2018; Hooten, Townsend, Sletten, Bruce, & Rome, 2007), along with a significant reduction in medical costs (Sletten, Kurklinsky, Chinburapa, & Ghazi, 2015). A recent systematic review of a total of 3,370 patients found that interdisciplinary, intensive outpatient pain rehabilitation programs contributed to clinical improvements in pain, mood, pain catastrophizing, and QOL, with large effect sizes (Bujak et al, 2019). Impressively, there is even evidence that improvements in functioning are sustained up to 13 years later (Patrick, Altmaier, & Found, 2004).…”