Chronic back pain

Back pain is an extremely common complaint, affecting approximately 17.3 million people in the UK - over a third of the adult population. Every year, around 3.5 million people experience back pain for the first time and 3.1 million will suffer from it throughout the year. It affects men and women equally. It is also one of the main reasons for sickness absence. Close to 120 million working days a year are lost to back pain and one in eight unemployed people says back pain is the reason they are not working. Fortunately, most occurrences of low back pain go away within a few days. Othe...