Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

The Hidden Global Disability Crisis Chiropractors Must Know

25 Oct 2024 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:51

Jeff Langmaid frames low back pain as a widespread global health problem in which most cases are "nonspecific" (no identifiable pathology) and many become chronic. He states chronicity thresholds: 12 weeks (3 months) or more. Verbal prevalence claims in this chunk: low back pain affects up to 85–90% of the global population at some point, chronic low back pain affects up to 25% of people, up to 12% of people are disabled by low back pain, global point prevalence cited as 12%, one-month prevalence 23%, and females are more likely to experience it. These figures are presented as the talk's opening problem statement.

Chapters

As we all know and talk about just about every single week, low back pain affects people worldwide and for up to 90% of people with low back pain, there is no underlying pathology. Therefore it is deemed chronic, non specific chronic if it's over three months, nonspecific if there's no underlying pathology, chronic again 12 weeks or more with no etiology. Low back pain affects almost the same amount up to 85 90% of the global population where chronic low back pain affects up to 25% of the population. And here's the real kicker on this rendering up to 12% of people disabled. That is a big, big deal. Low back pain global prevalence 12% one month prevalence 23% and females are far more likely to experience it.