When you don't feel the pain, you may do something to injure the area further, a serious concern in patients who perform manual or heavy labor.

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Workers who perform manual labor would receive a hardship exemption.

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When they are done with school, many young black males end up at Angola Prison, a correctional facility located on a former plantation where inmates still perform manual farm labor, and where 90 percent of them eventually die.

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