To truly understand the cost of pain in America it helps to have some understanding of how many or us are suffering from chronic pain, what it is costing us to treat ourselves, the impact of the opioid crisis, and what alternatives to prescription opioids we have. This is the third in a 6-part series examining the Cost of Pain.
Did You Know?
Did you know that it is costing Americans $635 billion per year in healthcare costs and lost productivity? That is a staggeringly high number! While many pain management specialists will resort to prescription opioids to treat many chronic conditions, doctors of chiropractic, like Dr. Merckling, use reliable, safe methods that require no drugs and no surgery to treat many forms of pain, including:
- headaches
- back & neck pain including disc herniation and sciatica
- TMJ
- and pain related to pregnancy
Stay Tuned for Part 4 of the Cost of Pain
In the next installment, we’ll look at how the number of opioid prescriptions have skyrocketed in the past 25 years.
