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Low back pain: an intermittent and remittent predicament of life
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For any of us to live a single year without a backache is abnormal. That is true throughout adult life. And that has, no doubt, always been true.
What is mutable is whether, and how, and how well we cope with another such challenge to our sense of invincibility. Mind you, this insight holds for many morbid events: headache and heart ache and heart burn and more. This is not to belittle the affliction; beyond the pain in the back, the contraction in daily functioning can rival severe heart failure. The difference is that we almost always recover from low back pain and we usually can remember a prior episode.
In the last half of this century, when the incidence of the experience
of regional low back pain seems stable,1 something is
happening to our tolerance. The numbers who are turning to others for
help and the numbers who now
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