Chronic Pain Makes 50-year-olds Feel 80 - Yahoo! News
September 16, 2009
Scientists re-examined data from a 2004 study of 18,531 people age 50 and over. As one example, among participants age 50 to 59 who had no chronic pain, 37 percent could jog a mile and 91 percent could walk several blocks with no trouble. Among those with chronic pain, only 9 percent could jog the mile and only half managed the walking task.
One of these days, medical science is going to surprise us all ...
... and discover something we don't already know.