According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, “Americans spend at least $50 billion each year on low back pain, the most common cause of job-related disability and a leading contributor to missed work. Back pain is the second most common neurological ailment in the United States.”
Research has shown that massage can:
- decrease low back pain
- decrease disability associated with low back pain
- demonstrates decreased pain and disability over time
- decrease anxiety/depression associated with low back pain
