Comstock's magazine 1119 - November 2019 | Page 85

SPECIAL PROMOTIONAL SECTION
WHAT A PAIN
Workers’ chronic discomfort affects a company’s health too
BY ALLEN PIERLEONI
Hold still, this may hurt.
“The biggest cause of injury in the of-
fice setting is inactivity,” Raymond Espi-
nosa, of Espinosa Family Chiropractic in
East Sacramento, says. “The ligaments,
tendons and joints ‘freeze.’ Movement is
the key.”
Those types of injuries can turn into
chronic pain — pain that persists longer
than six months — and it can contribute
to depression, anxiety, energy loss, debil-
itation, lost productivity and missed days
of work, meaning chronic pain isn’t just a
problem for an individual to deal with and
solve, but it affects a company’s health too.
Medical experts say presenteeism —
when a person who is experiencing chron-
ic pain is physically on the job but is so
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