Is Pain Lowering Your Income?

Pain lowers your productivity, creativity, and patience...making you a less-than-stellar employee!

If you are one of the four in ten Americans who, according to the American Academy of Pain Medicine, reports that pain interferes with your mood, activities, ability to do work, or enjoyment of life, then it is a good bet that this same pain is losing you money. It’s not just the money you spend on doctor’s appointments, massages, medicines, and other healthcare. Pain can interfere with productivity at work. It’s kind of hard to go the extra mile at your job and impress your superiors when the pain gets so bad that you can barely focus.

What the Numbers Tell Us

You can probably feel how much your productivity drops at work when it’s a bad pain day. If that migraine starts throbbing or your low back is shooting pain up your spine, it can seem to take hours just to get through your email. Some studies have actually attempted to determine exactly how much revenue employers are losing as a result of your pain.

In 2010, a study called “The Economic Costs of Pain in the United States,” by Dr. Darrel J. Gaskin and Dr. Patrick Richard estimated that the total value of lost productivity in the United States each year due to pain ranged from $261 billion upwards to $300 billion. The lost productivity came in the form of days of work missed, hours of work lost, and lower overall wages.

How Much Are You Losing?

This study proves that chronic pain is hurting employers almost as much as their own employees, but what does this mean for your paycheck? Pain could be hurting your wallet by forcing you to take sick days instead of cashing them out. If you take too much sick leave, you may need to start taking unpaid days. That’s only the tip of the iceberg, however. Chronic pain changes your attitude, perception, and even your goals.

Pain can make you cranky and short, which won’t go over well with your co-workers. If you start missing deadlines or doing sloppy work, because you can’t focus, your boss is going to notice. Finally, if pain makes it so that just getting through the day doing the bare minimum is a victory, you aren’t exactly in the mindset to climb the corporate ladder.

All of these factors make you someone your boss probably doesn’t want to promote anytime soon, and you may even lose your job if your work quality slips too much. If you are self-employed or work on commission, then lost productivity due to pain can have an immediate and devastating effect on your income.

Invest In a Pain-Free Future

Getting rid of your chronic pain is obviously its own reward, but if you need some financial incentive to invest in pain management options, think of how much money pain could be stealing from you. The SCENAR could be your solution to a pain-free and more productive future. This device supercharges the body’s own natural healing processes and can even help heal old, long-term injuries that have been plaguing you for years. Invest in yourself, your career, and your future. Consider scheduling an appointment with a SCENAR expert today or purchasing your own SCENAR unit.