Back pain accounts for 100 million lost workdays a year.
Back pain is on the increase for two main reasons.
First, our lifestyles have become more sedentary. These two factors have combined to create cumulative trauma to the back, the primary cause of back pain in most individuals. Many people often recall single instances when they injured their back, such as bending forward to pick up a bag of groceries. However, a healthy back will not be injured by one time events such as this, but rather, these events are usually the final straw which causes pain in a back that has been injured by months or years of repetitive trauma. As the spine is a complex structure, there are several different types of back injuries.