If it seems like everyone you know, including yourself, has back pain, you actually might be close to the truth.
“If you go on the street and pick a random group of people, 20 percent will say they have back pain right now, 40 percent will have had it in the past year, and 80 percent have had back pain over the course of their lives,” says Patrick Roth, M.D., chairman of the department of neurosurgery at New Jersey’s Hackensack University Medical Center and author of The End of Back Pain. That’s a lot of back pain.
