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Getting Back to Work

Proving that personal factors play a major role in the prognosis for back and neck pain, researchers have found that people who call in sick for back and neck problems return to work at different rates despite having similar problems.
Researchers from University of Gothenburg, Sweden followed 385 patients in a rehabilitation programme for 10 years and asked them to self-rate their pain, functional ability and quality of life. Fitness levels were tested and the length of sick leave registered. The patients were also asked about their feelings and thoughts of their future working life.

The results showed that if patients had motivation to get back to work, they returned to their work more quickly than those who were uncertain and had doubts about their work situation.

The moral of this story is that emotional stress be it work, personal life etc will impact on your recovery rate, so keeping positive throughout your course of treatment gives you a better chance of recovering quickly!