Number of Americans With Severe Joint Pain Rising
Close to 15 million people live with the problem
Severe joint pain plagues and increasing number of Americans a new report finds. In 2002, about 10.5 million people in the United States said they battled severe joint pain, but by 2014 that number had jumped to 14.6 million, said researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One in every four people with arthritis in the new study rated their pain as “severe”, and this number is expected to rise in the coming years.