Prevent back pain at work and home.

Approximately 6,000,000 Americans a year see a doctor as a result of back pain, often because they did not use the proper methods of lifting and moving an object. It is common not only among laborers and warehouse workers, but also caregivers. Studies how that nurses rank second to heavy industry workers in the number of persons suffering back pain.

Most back pain lasts a few days, but about one out of six persons have experienced severe agony that lingers at least two weeks sometime during their lives. The cost of treatment, lost wages, and rehabilitation is enormous. Just the direct costs of insurance-compensated medical bills and payment for lost wages related to low back pain are estimated at more than $11,500,000,000 a year. Indirect costs of lost production time, training unskilled replacements...