A short YouTube talk by Jeff Langmaid about low back pain prevalence and the paradox that, despite clinical advances, healthcare costs for low back pain in the U.S. have risen substantially over the past decade. The presenter cites that up to 80% of people will experience low back pain and frames a concern that system-level costs have not declined despite gains in care.
This is about low back pain. Up to 80% of people are going to struggle with this. And right off the bat, they get into an interesting fact. If we think we're doing a better job with low back pain as a country, that is not the case. They cite the fact that health care costs for low back pain have increased substantially in the past decade. So if you're like me and you've been around maybe more than a decade in this profession, you might say, wow, we've made a lot of great gains. And we have in some ways. But in terms of our ability as a health care institution, so to speak, across this country, we have not done a great job reducing the cost associated with low backpack.
