Did You Know?

Vertis Neuroscience develops innovative medical technologies for people suffering debilitating pain or neurological impairment. The statistics prove that these conditions are widely pervasive and are associated with enormous direct and indirect expenses, including healthcare expenditures, lost time from work, and staggering disability costs. These pain-related conditions, however, have routinely resulted in misperceptions surrounding who they affect and the impact on patients and their families.

• Low back pain afflicts approximately 30-40 million Americans annually.¹
• In any given year, an estimated 20 million Americans experience chronic (100⁺ days) low back pain.^2,3
• Up to 80% of all adults will eventually experience low back pain.⁴
• Although perceived as a condition affecting primarily older people, back pain is the most common cause of disability in people under the age of 45, and the second most common cause of absence from work in adults under 55. In addition, people aged 25-34 years have the largest portion of lost-workday cases.⁵
• A study of more than 17,500 patients being treated at specialty spine clinics found that patients with back pain perceived themselves to have greater functional impairment than patients with cancer, diabetes, congestive heart failure, and hypertension.⁶
• Low back pain takes an enormous personal toll, and persistent low back pain is often complicated by depression, financial stress, vocational difficulties, strains in personal relationships, and loss of productivity and
  self-esteem.⁷
• Approximately 60% of people with debilitating pain cannot engage in routine activities that most people take for granted, such as grocery shopping, walking, and housekeeping, because of the pain.⁸