Chiropractic Albuquerque New Mexico

Back Pain | Backache | Lumbago | Back Trouble | Bad Back | Sciatica | Slipped Disk

Chiropractic Albuquerque New Mexico provides real help for back pain sufferers on backache, lumbago, back trouble, bad back, sciatica, and slipped disk.

Some valuable figures about back pain:

• Low back pain is the fifth most frequent reason for all physician visits in the United States.


• Back pain is the most common cause of activity restriction in people younger than 45 years old.


• The majority of cases of back pain are mechanical or non-organic—meaning they are not caused by serious conditions, such as inflammatory arthritis, infection, fracture or cancer.


• Approximately one quarter of U.S. adults reported having low back pain lasting at least one whole day in the past three months, and 7.6 percent stated at least one period of severe acute low back pain within a one-year period.


• Low back pain is also very expensive: around 5 percent of people with back pain disability account for 75 percent of the costs associated with low back pain.


• One-half of all working Americans confess to having back pain symptoms every year.


• around 2 percent of the U.S. work force is compensated for back injuries each year.


• Americans spend at least $50 Billion per year on back pain—and that’s just for the more easily identified costs.