What impact does back pain have on your health & finances?
Hello!
Having helped hundreds of people with back pain, we know what an enormous impact it has on their lives.
But we never knewhow and what kind of an impactit has on people’s health and wealth.
I found a study to learn more about that impact and bring that knowledge to you.
Let’s read about what I have found.
The study I looked at is called “Real-world practice patterns, health-care utilization, and costs in patients with low back pain: the long road to guideline-concordant care”
The study sample included 211,551 patients, aged 18 to 64 years, with one Lower back pain (LBP) diagnosis or more.
The study found that “Patients with LBP had significantly higher rates of baseline comorbidities and resource use compared with controls.” Which means that they weremore likely to have other health problemsif they had back pain.
The study also found that “Of patients with LBP, 41.6% had imaging (X rays or MRI) days after the LBP diagnosis. Most patients with LBP (69.4%) used medications starting 51.9 (8) [86.2] days after the diagnosis. Opioids were commonly prescribed early (41.6% of patients; after 82.8 (25) [105.9] days). Of patients with LBP, 2.05% had surgery during the study period.”
“Patients with LBP were likely to have chiropractic treatment first, followed by pharmacotherapy with muscle relaxants and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Except for less surgery, these findings also held for patients with only nonspecific LBP. Patients with LBP had higher mean direct costs compared with controls ($7,211 vs. $2,382, respectively; p<.0001), with surgery patients having mean direct costs of $33,931.”
Not only were they more likely to have other health problems but also look at how muchmoney they spend in 12 months, on back pain treatments & investigations, if you read our other articles, you know none of which worked.
Keep spending money on things we know doesn’t work or Do try something that does?
Jason
