美《时代》杂志1980年7月14日第32页医学栏报道摘要如下: 腰痛是最常见的一种疾病。在美国,腰痛的患者估计有7千5百万人,每年新增加病例约7百万人。在上述的患者中,约5百万人是半残废状态,约2百万人不能工作。真正体会腰痛痛苦的人是患者本人。坐着或动作都感不便,穿衣、大小便也成问题。在疼痛消失后,随时还能复发。由于腰痛而造成的社会损失很难估计。在美国,腰痛患者每年工作日的损失约计9千3百万个工作日。在瑞 The United States, “Time” magazine July 14, 1980 page 32 medical column summary of the report are as follows: Back pain is the most common disease. In the United States, an estimated 75 million people have low back pains and about 7 million new cases each year. About 5 million of these patients are semi-mutilated and about 2 million do not work. People who really feel the pain of low back pain are the patients themselves. Sit or move are inconvenienced, dressing, toilet is also a problem. After the pain disappears, can recur at any time. Social losses due to low back pain are hard to estimate. In the United States, the loss of back pain patients per year is about 93 million working days. In Switzerland