Spine & Sports: Surgeon Should Be Last Stop For Neck, Back Pain

By Scott Gillman/Daily News Correspondent, Winchester Star: Health
Thu, 04/13/2017 - 5:54pm

A study of America’s spending on personal and public health care from 1996-2013 calculated 2013 spending on neck and back pain as the third highest health-related cost in the U.S., second only to costs for diabetes and ischemic heart disease. Unfortunately, fully integrated neck and back pain treatment programs are scarce, and most spine care involves individual providers chipping away at the condition in a variety ways, with many utilizing flawed and costly first lines of defense.

Topics: america s u.s spine neck pain spending care

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