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A major cause of low back pain is intervertebral disc pain. This paper describes the costs for society, and patients' quality of life, pain severity, and disability.

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Our findings show that that in patients with discogenic low back pain costs for society are high. Patients suffer severe pain, are physically limited, and experience a serious loss in quality of life.

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This page is a summary of: The Impact of Chronic Discogenic Low Back Pain: Costs and Patients’ Burden, Pain Research and Management, October 2018, Hindawi Publishing Corporation,
DOI: 10.1155/2018/4696180.
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