Pain relief

Pacific Rehabilitation opens facility in Moses Lake for injured workers

MOSES LAKE — Getting hurt on the job is no fun. Besides the injury itself, you might have to take days, weeks, even months off work, while collecting a fraction of your regular paycheck. There are doctor visits, bureaucratic hassles, and what seems like enough paperwork to use up a national forest. And when you’ve exhausted all your physical and psychological energy, sometimes it still hurts. “When you have an injured worker that has been off work, and they're dealing with pain and it's been three months or more, that pain usually becomes chronic pain,” said Bobbi Meins, business and program development director for Pacific Rehabilitation Services, which opened its office in Moses Lake a couple of weeks ago.