After cold and flu, back pain is the number one 

cause of lost work.

6.5 million people are at home in bed right now because of low back pain.

Recovery can take 4-6 weeks which averages to 

93 Million days of lost work due to back
pain every year in the United States.

Research company A.M. Best estimates that low back pain alone costs workers compensation, insurance companies and employers in excess 

of $50 Billion annually. 

Some estimates exceed $100 Billion.

(New England Journal of Medicine 318:291-300,1988)