Fanwood Chiropractor Explains How Depression is Associated with Back Pain

German researchers reviewed data from national health surveys that included nearly 50,000 adults and found that 21.1% experienced an episode of low back pain in the previous year, while 6.7% had diagnosed depression during the same time frame.

Interestingly, of those with depression nearly half also had low back pain, which suggests a strong association between the two conditions, though the study unable to determine the nature of the relationship.

Journal of Evidence, Training and Quality in Health Care (Germany), November 2018.

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