Less pain leads to less sick leave according to research
A large study from the Danish National Research Center for Work environment (NFA) with more than 69,000 participants has confirmed a clear and progressive correlation between perceived pain on a scale from 0 to 10 and the risk of long-term sick absence. This means that the more intense the pain, the greater the risk of long-term sick leave.
The study shows that a person with a percieved pain intensity of 10 has a 141 % higher risk of long-term sick absence than a person with a percieved pain intensity of 0, where a person with a percieved pain intensity of 4 only has a 25 % higher risk of long-term sick absence than a pain intensity of 0.
The study also shows that prevention of pain intensities at or above 4 could potentially prevent 17% of the total long-term sickness absence.
In Denmark, long-term sickness absence of >30 days accounts for 39% of all sickness absence, so there is a huge cost saving potential in reducing pain intensities and thus long-term sick absence.
Ref.: Skovlund et al. 2023
Combining the findings from the NFA study with Precure results
Combining the findings from the NFA study with PRECURE costumer data, where employees reporting high level of pain experienced a significant reduction in pain intensity indicates that the MLI® Solution from PRECURE has the potential to prevent 17% of the long-term sick absenc. In average PRECURE data shows a reduction in pain intensity of 45% throughout all costumers, an average reduction on 3 pain levels, and all post levels are below pain intensity 4.