The Low Back Problem

The problem of the patient with low back pain has been with the medical profession, I imagine, since our first great ancestor pulled himself from the four-footed to the upright position. The low back takes all the strain. It is one of our points of least resistance. It is like the poor—it is always with us. And I am afraid, very much like the poor, also, it is apt to be shoved away into a corner so that we will not be bothered by seeing it.