News from World Spine Care
Theory versus Reality, an official selection from W.H.O.’s Health for All Film Festival
This touching short film from the W.H.O. Film Festival illustrates the discrepancy between pure academic knowledge as taught in medical universities and the much more complex reality of the challenges doctors face in their daily practice with their patients.
This Mother’s Day, We Honor Women Overcoming Low Back Pain
Spine problems are the leading cause of disability around the world. Their effects are even more common in women, the elderly, and people in low-income populations. We honor the mothers who put their children and families first despite experiencing pain or discomfort from back problems.
Join World Spine Care and Extend Your Helping Hands Beyond Your Clinic
World Spine Care is launching Helping Hands, their annual fundraising campaign in support of their mission to provide sustainable, evidence-based, quality spine care to under-served communities around the world.
Learn how you can extend your reach to the 577 million people suffering from low back pain worldwide.
What is the connection between low back pain and mortality?
Low back pain is one of the most common health problems in the population. About 80% of people will suffer from back pain at some point in their life, usually during adolescence or early adulthood. Low back pain is the leading cause of years lived with disability – a measure of the burden of disease – and has a greater impact than more well-known diseases such as HIV, malaria, diabetes, and breast and lung cancer combined.
Although research has been done to determine whether back pain is associated with an increased death rate, the results have not been consistent.
A new systematic review tried to clarify these results.
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