Nearly one billion people worldwide have spine disorders, making them the leading cause of disability, yet health policies largely ignore them. Jeff Langmaid discusses why low back pain gets so little attention and how Spine20 is working to change that.
The numbers are really, really staggering. So according to this paper, spine disorders affect almost 1 billion people worldwide, and that number is projected to exceed 1 billion people by 2025. So if you sit a moment, just let that sink in. This is not like a niche issue. This— you've heard that low back pain, spine issues, number one cause of disability, but this is one of the largest global healthcare burdens that we face. And despite all of that, spine disorders remain underprioritized in almost every national health policy. And that's the gap that Spine20 is at least trying to start to close by publishing a paper like this.
