Medicine
8 years ago

Low back pain now the leading global cause of disability.

Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Placing the global burden of low back pain in context
Rachelle Buchbinder, Fiona Blyth, Lyn March, Peter Brooks, Anthony D. Woolf, Damian G Hoy

Paper Summary

Low back pain is now the top cause of disability worldwide, surpassing 290 other conditions. It was responsible for 58.2 million years lived with disability in 1990, rising to 83 million in 2010. The Global Burden of Disease data shows this increase. Visual tools help display this data. Limitations in current data need addressing for more accurate estimates. Policy changes are needed to reduce the burden of low back pain.

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