A short talk by Jeff Langmaid summarizing the global burden of low back pain and clinical causes relevant to chiropractors. He states low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide (affecting over half a billion people at any time) and outlines radiculopathy and common structural causes such as spinal stenosis, lumbar disc herniation, foraminal and lateral recess stenosis.
Studies all about low back pain. We know it is the greatest cause of disability worldwide. The global prevalence, over half a billion people at any given time are dealing with low back pain. So it's a big issue. Yeah. Is it a big market? Just about the biggest. And radiculopathy as it ties into that, we all know it refers to the inflammation could be compression of the nerve roots. And what can that cause? Pain, weakness, numbness. And that can travel, it can stay more local. A lot of that is it depends. And it can be caused by things like spinal stenosis, narrowing of the spinal cord and canal lumbar disc herniations, which is when the disc of course pushes beyond the natural margin which gets into foraminal stenosis or lateral recess stenosis. Stenosis of course, meaning narrowing. And the first word there, spinal, lateral recess or foraminal, just telling you where it's happening in that segment.
