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May 1, 2010
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 If you have lower back pain, you are not alone. Every year, 40 to 60 percent of American adults suffer from chronic back pain. Nearly everyone at some point has back pain that interferes with work, routine daily activities, or recreation. Americans spend at least $50 billion each year on low back pain, the most common cause of job-related disability and a leading contributor to missed work. Back pain is the second most common orthopedic ailment in the United States. Most occurrences of low back pain go away within a few days. Others take much longer to resolve and can lead to more serious conditions, possibly requiring surgery. More than one million spine surgery procedures are performed annually in the United States.
Click here to continue reading the article by Dr. Goll, published in September 2008 in the Orlando Medical News.
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