Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

5% of Adults Have This… In YOUR Community

6 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief presentation Jeff Langmaid highlights that roughly 5% of adults aged 30‑50 will experience a lumbar disc herniation accompanied by radiculopathy. He translates that prevalence into absolute numbers for various community sizes—ranging from 25,000 to a million residents—showing that thousands to tens of thousands of potential patients may exist in any given practice area. Langmaid urges frontline clinicians to recognize this hidden patient pool and to actively communicate that they are a viable first‑line solution for these sufferers, asking whether they are doing everything possible to tell that story.

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5% of people between 30 and 50 will experience lumbar disc herniation with radiculopathy. Time and gravity are undefeated, as I'm sure you've heard me say. But 5% of individuals having radiculopathy with that herniation between 30 and 50, that's significant. If you live in a town with a population of 100,000 or, you know, in the greater area of where you live, let's say it's even 25,000, 50,000, 100,000. Let's say you're in a metropolitan area like me, 500,000, a million. There's a lot of people between 30 and 50 years old, and 5% of them is a really big number. That could be literally thousands, and in some cases tens of thousands of people in your community, in your circle of practice right now that might be struggling with a condition that you are the best solution for as a frontline option. Are you doing everything you can to tell that story?