Cross-national trends of chronic back pain in adolescents: results from the HBSC study, 2001-2014

Back pain is a common chronic pain problem in adolescents [20,22]. Moreover, back pain and chronic back pain in children and adolescents is associated with lower levels of well-being, higher medical care requirements and costs, and functional limitations [1,12,13,28,33,35]. A review of 27 systematic reviews on back pain in children and adolescents found that its monthly prevalence ranges from 18% to 24%. In most, but not all, of the reviews, the prevalence of back pain was higher for girls than boys, and increased with age [23].
Source: The Journal of Pain - Category: Materials Science Authors: Source Type: research