Pain Affects Millions of Americans

One in four U.S. adults say they suffered a day-long bout of pain in the past month, and one in 10 say the pain lasted a year or more, according to the government's annual, comprehensive report of Americans' health, Health United States, 2006, released in November by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics. "We chose to focus on pain in this report because it is rarely discussed as a condition in and of itself – it is mostly viewed as a byproduct of another condition,"...More