Guide Note: Pain is an unpleasant, distressing sensation produced by a sensory episode of the Nervous System. Pain can be felt at various intensities and can be caused by an injury, surgery, a disease or illness, or incorrect signals from the spinal cord.
Fast Facts:
- Frequency: 76.2 million people
- Most reported type of pain: Low back pain
- 32% of Americans, over the age of 20, who have reported pain say that it lasted less than one month
- 50% of Americans have some form of chronic pain
- 25% of Americans have or have had short lived pain
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Pain, please consult your doctor.