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Article: Chronic Pain Up Almost 40 Percent Among U.S. Workers in Past Decade.
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- PR Newswire
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- January 30, 2007
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But Most Employees in Pain Still Go to Work, Benchmark Study Finds
RARITAN, N.J., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Persistent, chronic pain has risen dramatically among full-time U.S. workers in the past 10 years, but workers today opt to go to their jobs rather than call in sick, leading to a growing trend of presenteeism -- a negative impact on work despite being physically present at the job.
These data, released today, are from a 2006 national survey conducted by Harris Interactive(R) on "Pain in the Workplace" (http://www.painandwork.com/), sponsored by PriCara(TM), Unit of Ortho-McNeil, Inc., and conducted in partnership with the National Pain Foundation ...