Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

18% Have Back Pain, Yet Few See Chiropractors? (Shocking Stats!)

13 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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Jeff Langmaid (YouTube, June 13, 2024) discusses the large personal and social burden of low back pain—citing a point prevalence of about 18% and referencing "years lived with disability"—and highlights a gap between that burden and chiropractic utilization. He notes about 15% of the population uses a chiropractor (estimates real penetration closer to 10%), argues chiropractors are uniquely effective for low back pain, and frames the shortfall as a communication/awareness problem.

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If you have a low back pain and you're unable to go to work, you're unable to do the things you love, it has a high life effect that affects you big time. It also affects one step beyond that, your family. It then affects your community. And we're talking about a thick percentage of people that impacts a community. Then we talk and we look regionally and globally and you can literally trace it up to that. When we look at these years lived with disability, it is a big deal. But the bottom line is there's nobody better on planet Earth that takes care of low back pain than us. And, and the fact that we're still hovering at being very nice saying 15% of the population uses a chiropractor, yet a ridiculously high percentage will have low back pain at some point in time, and 18% literally have back pain at any given time. That delta hurts. I view our penetration probably closer to 10%. And if 18% is the point prevalence, nearly one out of two people is not choosing to see a chiropractor. Why? That's a communication issue, of course.