MARCH 2021
SPECIAL ISSUE 3

Prevalence of back and neck pain in Germany. Results from the BURDEN 2020 Burden of Disease Study

Special Issue S3/2021 gives an overview of back and neck pain among adults in Germany. The article focuses on the frequency and intensity of back and neck pain, quality of life and comorbidity.

The data is based on a nationwide cross-sectional telephone survey of headache, back and neck pain, which was developed by the Robert Koch Institute and conducted between October 2019 and March 2020 as part of the project ‘BURDEN 2020 – The burden of disease in Germany at the national and regional level’.