Over 1 billion people in this world are partly or severely disabled. The greatest cause of disability is pain and specifically low back and neck pain.
Pain and related disability impact the most vulnerable people in the world: Women, the Elderly, the Lowest Quintile of the population and the poorest nations.
It impacts personal wellbeing and quality of life of the person who is disabled but also the community or country in which the person lives in the form of loss of productivity, stress on the health care system, support of the disabled person, loss of tax payments and reduced family and community functioning. This makes the most vulnerable people and communities vulnerable to the impact of pain and disability.
World Spine Care is committed to reducing the disability related to spine and musculoskeletal pain and to develop a model of care to reduce the incidence and impact of these condition.
This panel discussion will review the impact of pain and disability in vulnerable populations and current models to reduce this impact.
Dr. Scott Haldeman – Founder, World Spine Care
Jan Hartvigsen, Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark.
Dr. Stephen Laski, WSC Clinical Coordinator
Dr. Vincent Stetlhare, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Botswana.
Dr. Rajani Mullerpatan, MGM Institute of Health Sciences, Navi Mumbai.