Blisstree » back acke http://www.blisstree.com Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:00:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The high cost of chronic pain http://www.blisstree.com/articles/the-high-cost-of-chronic-pain-276/ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/the-high-cost-of-chronic-pain-276/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:43:33 +0000 Marijke Durning, RN http://www.helpmyhurt.com/2008/02/26/the-high-cost-of-chronic-pain/ Post from: Blisstree

The high cost of chronic pain

]]> I found these statistics at the Chronic Pain Association of Canada web site:

The major causes of health-related lost productivity time among American workers, accounting for up to 25% of all sick leave days annually, are:

  • back pain – an average of 5.8 hours per week for back pain
  • migraines/headaches – an average of 3.6 hours per week for headache
  • arthritis – an average of 5.9 hours per week for arthritis

An estimated $90 billion is lost – annually – to American businesses due to chronic pain (sick leave, reduced productivity, medical costs).

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