X + Y = 1/3 of America’s Children with Back or Neck Pain. Now Let’s Solve For These Variables

Almost a third of US children and adolescents have back or neck pain with many of these cases continuing on chronically into adulthood, lending towards disability. One way to take a bite out of long-term pain and spit out the opioid problem is to prevent issues from ever arising. In this podcast we discuss a recent orthopedic conference which acknowledges the vast amount of spinal pain in America’s youth, and with a clinical eye, not merely scratch at, but rather gouge away at factors that need to be remedied to halt this pandemic of back pain and it’s associated opioid crisis.