Earlier this year, the Institute of Medicine issued a report estimating that U.S. businesses lost between $297.4 billion and $335.5 billion in productivity due to chronic pain. Chronic pain affects some 116 million Americans—some of whom might be your employees.

Since workers’ compensation claims must start with a work-related injury or illness, reliable estimates of what pain itself costs the workers’ compensation system every year do not exist… [748 word article, December 2011]