Occupational Backcare – Chiropractic Healthcare for your employees
Back pain is the largest single reported cause of absence from work and leading cause of disability.
Sickness absence due to back and neck pain alone accounts for a loss of 1.2 million working days, at a cost of £100 million per year, in small and medium sized businesses.
How much does your company lose each year due to neck and back pain?
Can you record your sickness absence accurately?
Do you offer your employees a referral system for fast and effective treatment?
Each year
- 40% of the population are affected by back pain (16 million)
- 2.5 million people have back pain every day of the year
- 119 million working days are lost per year
- Overall burden to the industry is £5billion
- 1.2 million people are affected by musculoskeletal pain and 500,000 by work related stress.
- Average sickness absence in a company of 3000 is 150 employees (5% of the workforce) each year, for, on average, 2 working weeks at a cost of £100 per day. Of the total days lost, 30% are due to musculoskeletal problems and 60% due to back and neck related problems.
- Or put another way: At any given time 1.5% of the workforce will be off due to a musculoskeletal problem and 1% due to back and neck related injuries.
- Without treatment people with severe low back pain or repetitive strain injuries may have to leave their jobs and even with milder symptoms they may be in constant pain, reducing their efficiency in the workplace and often causing numerous days taken off each year.