The survey of 2000 US adults found that almost half of respondents (49%) are affected by pain at work, and 2 in 5 say that pain hampers their social lives.
Scientists used to think the curvature of the spine separated modern-day humans from extinct human species, but they just learned that Neanderthals had a huge spinal advantage that can be tapped into.
Preliminary data suggest more than one third of people with back pain no longer used opioids after filling cannabis prescriptions. Opioid prescriptions decreased as well for those with osteoarthritis.