2018-04-17 01:51:30
NUMBER CRUNCH
Around the world
The new series from The Lancet highlights a few facts on low back pain: Here’s what’s going wrong.
540 million The number of people, mostly of working age, who are experiencing low back pain at any given time
#1 Low back pain is the number one cause of disability worldwide
22% The return to work rate of people with chronic low back pain in Germany
$12.8 billion (US) The amount spent on spinal fusion surgery in the U.S. in 2011
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