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Back pain can affect anyone from children, to adults and seniors. It is especially prevalent in individuals who lead sedentary lives. There is also an increased occurrence of back pain during the third to sixth decades of a person’s life. Back pain is usually recurrent, with subsequent episodes tending to increase in severity.

In just the last 10 years, the costs for treating neck and back pain has risen by an incredible 65% to almost $85.9 billion within just the United States.(Compare this to the 2nd leading cause of death in the USA – Cancer – with total annual costs averaging $89 billion.) Despite the billions of dollars spent on the research and treatment of spinal conditions (including advancements in diagnostic technologies, new surgical procedures, and pharmaceutical treatments) the results have been astoundingly poor. In fact if we compare overall costs to outcome, we see that the costs have gone up, but the outcomes have not improved. ¹

Back pain puts a huge burden on our health care system and is responsible for approximately 40% of all absences from the workplace. ² Conventional treatments have not been successful in resolving these conditions.