Jeff Langmaid on why low back pain dominates chiropractic visits. Roughly 80-90% of adults experience it at some point in their lives, and about 30% are dealing with it right now. It's the number-one reason people first see a chiropractor.
About 80–90% (speaker says 'up to or over 80%' and '80 to 90%').
About 30%.
Low back pain.
Why is this a big deal? Well, there's a couple different reasons. Number one is low back pain is the number one reason why people initially visit a chiropractor. It is the number one reason people associate care with a chiropractor. And we also know that up to or over 80% of adults will experience back pain in their life. So just about everybody's going to deal with it. We see 80 to 90% the typical statistics on how many people will deal with a bout of back pain. And we also know about 30% of people, that's kind of the prevalence factors. About 30% of people are dealing with back pain at any given time. So you walk into wherever you walk into a PTA meeting, you walk into a school, you walk into a business, you see 10 people, random people, about three of them statistically are dealing with back pain right then. And about 8 or 9 out of 10 will deal with it at some point in their life. And that is one of the reasons why it's the number one reason why people initially visit a chiropractor. So.
