Dr. Vince Leone breaks down back pain numbers: 100 million Americans experience it yearly, 10 million have chronic disc problems, and 1.5 million get spinal surgery. He argues many of those surgeries are unnecessary.
I think from a demand, just to dive in perspective, the latest research I've found in the United States is there's about 100 million people that suffer from back pain every single year, and about 8 to 10% of that is due to a chronic nature, typically a disc. So if you kind of rough that out, 10 million people every single year suffering from some type of bulging, herniated, or degenerative disc. Kyle, You have 1.5 million spinal surgeries every single year, about 125,000 a month. You just intuitively know not all those people really need spinal surgery.
