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
different country population