
Physicians
Your Patients are in Pain. You Want a Better Solution.
- Pain affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease & cancer combined,
approximately 116 million people annually.
- Prescription drugs are the second-most abused category of drugs in the United States,
following marijuana.
- More than one-quarter of Americans (26%) age 20+, or an estimated 76.5 million
Americans, report they’ve had a problem with pain of any sort that persisted for more
than 24 hours.
- More than 1.5 billion people worldwide suffer from chronic pain & 3-4.5% of the global
population suffers from neuropathic pain.
- An estimated 20% of American adults (42 million people) report that pain or physical
discomfort disrupts their sleep a few nights a week or more.
- Back pain is the leading cause of disability in Americans under 45. Over 26 million
Americans between ages of 20-64 experience frequent back pain.
Adapted from the American Academy of Pain Medicine