Back pain is one of the most common causes of long-term sickness in the workplace after stress. Is your practice doing what it can to protect practitioners and employees?
Approximately 7.6 million workdays are lost every year in the UK because of work-related back pain. Those affected can take up to six weeks or longer to recover, so prevention is definitely more cost effective than cure.Here are our top ten tips for preventing back pain and musculoskeletal injuries in the workplace.
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