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Back pain affects Britain’s

Back pain affects most of us at some stage of our lives.

About 80% of us will experience back pain lasting more than a day.

Almost half of British adults will report low back pain lasting at least 24 hours at some time during the year.

Almost 10 million women have back pain each year.

Studies show between 40%-60% of pregnant women get back pain.

Men’s back pain is often the result of injury, while women’s is part of their everyday lives.

People who experience back pain as a child or teenager are more likely to experience back pain as an adult.

What Back pain costs The NHS.

Back pain costs the NHS and community care services more than £1 billion each year. This includes:

£141 million each year for GP consultations (At least 5 million adults consult their GPs annually about back pain).

£151 million for NHS physiotherapy.

£512 million for hospital care (in-patient, out-patient and emergency).

Afurther £565 million are spent on private ser- vices.

Ten percent of those complaining of back pain visited a complementary practitioner, such as an osteopath, chiropractor or acupuncturist.

Nurses are particularly prone to back pain. 80,000 nurses injure their backs each year and 3,600 are invalided out as a result.

BACK FACTS courtesy of:

Back pain is the nation’s leading cause of dis- ability, with 1.1 million people disabled by it.

On any one day, about 1% of the working-age population are on sickness absence due to a back problem.

Nearly 5 million working days were lost through bad backs in 2003/4. On average, each sufferer took about 20 days off in that period.

HSE (Health and Safety Executive) estimates show work-related musculoskeletal disorders cost employers between £590 -£624 million per year.

One in eight (13%) of unemployed people say back pain is the reason they are not working. At any one time, 430,000 people in the UK are receiving Social Security payments primarily for back pain.

The total cost of back pain corresponds to be- tween 1% and 2% of Britain’s Gross National Product (GNP).

What can lead to back pain in the workplace?

Sitting at a workstation for a long period of time if the workstation is not correctly arranged or adjusted to suit the person, e.g. working with computers;

Driving long distances or driving over rough ground (people who drive over 25,000 miles a year averaged just over 22 days a year off work with bad backs, compared with just over 3 days a year for low-mileage drivers);

Repetitive tasks, such as manual packing of goods;

Awkward manual handling such as delivery work;

Heavy manual labour.

BackCare: Telephone 0845 130 2704. Website www.backpain.org. email info@backcare.org.uk

The Heath & Safety Executive (HSE): Helpline 0845 345 0055. Website www.hse.gov.uk Many useful leaflets, guidelines and books can be obtained from both organisations.

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