About 80 percent of adults experience low back pain at some point in their lifetimes. affecting men & women equally, it is the most common cause of job-related disability and a leading contributor to missed work days.

Acute back pain lasts for a few days to a few weeks. it tends to resolve on its own with self-care and there is no residual loss of function.

Subacute low back pain is defined as pain that lasts between 4 and 12 weeks.

Chronic back pain persists for 12 weeks or longer, even after an initial injury or underlying cause of acute low back pain has been treated.

About 20 percent of people affected by acute low back pain develop chronic low back pain with persistent symptoms at one year.