Neck pain costs the U.S. healthcare system $130 billion a year and is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Jeff Langmaid explores whether improving posture and spinal alignment can reduce symptoms and heal discs, as most patients want non-invasive treatments instead of surgery or injections.
So globally, neck pain is one of the leading causes of disability. It affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide. You want to talk about market opportunity? Hundreds of millions of people. And costs the US healthcare system alone over $130 billion— billion— annually. So this is not a small problem. And often, just like the low back, medications, injections, surgery— these things are often discussed. But the reality is most patients are searching for non-invasive solutions. So the question that the researchers asked specifically in this study was, if cervical degenerative changes are linked to posture and spinal alignment, can improving alignment and posture actually improve the symptomatology and potentially even influence disc health? And that is what this study explored.
