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If you go into the literature and you look at the studies that have been done Bressler did a nice review a couple of years ago in Spine. You can see widely varying numbers for the prevalence, 13% - 49% of people have back pain in a given year, 23 to 51; that’s not too bad. In nursing home population 40%. |