Blaming the Recession for Their Aches and Pains

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Folks aren’t just speaking metaphorically when they call the recession a painful experience. In polling for the American Pain Foundation, 68 percent of adults who’ve had acute back pain or “other minor muscle strains and pains” in the past year said the economy brought on the condition or made it worse. In many such cases, they attribute the pain to “greater stress and working harder at home and on the job.”

These aches and pains afflict a large proportion of the adult population.

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