as expected, the prevalence increases the longer the period of study
adult population show a steady increases with increases length of prevalence period
population-specific study of 1133 people in
adult reported experiencing neck pain at some point in their lifetime
54% in the most recent 6 months
it has also been note that Scandinavian countries
appear to have a considerable number of investigations into neck pain prevalence
while a finnish population of
described an overall rate of 13.8% for greater than 6 months duration
hospital based physiotherapy referrals are due to neck pain
in ... neck pain contributes up to 2 percent of general practitioner consultation
while neck pain in the US accounts for almost 1 % of all visits to primary care physicians
while there are some differences on the prevalence estimate of neck pain different country population
large number of people within these population
they identified nine Scandinavian studies with a yearly prevalence of 36%
result were not found to be significant
week prevalence