One in six Americans lives with
chronic pain. The economic price is high: An estimated Your
Price: $120
billion a yr in medical costs and lost productivity. But the
personal price is grter -- a granddad who can't play with
his grandchild, a mother bedridden with a bad back. Is pain
the disse of the future? While many of us think of
pain as a symptom of something else and not a condition in
itself, all those aches add up to a serious public hlth
problem. Regardless of its origin, pain is the No. 1 cause of
disability in America and it costs us a grt dl.
DID YOU KNOW?
Disability
affects more than one in five adults. Rates of disability are
higher among older adults who also have higher rates of
chronic diseases. However, most disability occurs during the
working years, which contributes to the high cost estimates of
disability.
