Americans prefer drug-free pain management. While 22 percent of U.S. adults prefer to take pain medication prescribed by a doctor to treat their physical pain, 78 percent prefer to try other ways to address their physical pain before they take pain medication prescribed by a doctor. This conclusion is based on data collected from February through March, 2017 as part of the Gallup-Palmer College of Chiropractic Annual Study of Americans. Low back pain is one of the most common sources of pain. In fact, compared with migraine pain, neck pain and face pain, low back pain is the most commonly reported type of pain that lasted a whole day or more in the U.S., according to Centers for Disease Control research.
In the study of Americans, Gallup finds that nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults (64 percent) have had neck or back pain significant enough that they saw a health care professional for care at some point in their lifetime. About one in four adults in the U.S. (27 percent) have seen a health care professional for significant neck or back pain in the last 12 months. More than half of those adults (54 percent) have had an ongoing problemwith neck or back pain for five years or more.
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