No. 1 cause of disability worldwide gains headlines

The BJD welcomes the increasing levels of interest and awareness in the growing burden of lower back pain as reported in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases. Lower back pain is now the number one cause of disability world wide.

The BJD extends its congratulations to author Lyn March, who is also leading the BJD Surveillance Task Force and to Prof. Tony Woolf chair of the BJD who co-authored the report.

To listen to Prof. Woolf talk about back pain on the BBC World Service, please click on the following link.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01vpzx7

For further interest the following links will take you to some of the more prestigious media reports that have appeared over the last few days:

Time Magazine:

http://time.com/36242/lower-back-pain-is-no-1-cause-of-disability-worldwide/

NHS UK:

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/03March/Pages/Back-pain-leading-cause-of-disability-study-finds.aspx

ITV News:

http://www.itv.com/news/story/2014-03-25/lower-back-pain-disability/