A worrying report from The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy estimates that Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) continues to cost UK business £300m a year.

Shockingly, official figures show the rate of RSI has not changed in the past six years, with more than 200,000 a year suffering in pain.

The latest figures also show that 2.8 million working days were lost last year due to RSI, with each person affected taking an average of 13 days off sick.

Physiotherapists warn that businesses and the government need to do more to protect the UK workforce from repetitive strain injury.

Pauline Cole, an occupational health expert at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, said:

"There has been little improvement despite the increasing focus on workplace health. Government and businesses need to do more to tackle this problem. We may then, after the frustration of many years of no progress, begin to see some reduction in the rates of this almost completely preventable condition."

The call follows last year’s review by Dame Carol Black, the National Director for Health and Work. Dame Black’s report urged business to take part in pilot schemes making access to work-related health support more widely available.