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Impact on work

The survey⁵ also states:

• 26% reported that suffering chronic pain had impacted on their jobs (n=4,215).
• 19% said that they had lost a job due to their pain (n=4,336).
• 16% had changed job responsibilities (n=4,336).

Overall, the mean time lost by chronic pain sufferers from work in the previous 6 months was 7.8 days (n=1,980).

These results show that chronic pain remains an under treated problem throughout Europe.