Chronic back pain is defined as pain that persists for 12 weeks or longer, even after an initial injury or underlying cause of acute low back pain has been treated. About 20 percent of people affected by acute low back pain develop chronic low back pain with persistent symptoms at one year.
Stoneman VillageAge Requirements:Stoneman Village is designated by HUD as a Senior & Handicapped Facility, a Section 202/8 Program. Stoneman Village II Age Requirements: Stoneman Village II is designated by HUD as a Senior Facility under Section 202/PRAC. The Head of Household must be 62 years of age or older.
The initiation begins at age seven with the separation of the boy from the mother. The boy will spend the rest of his young life only in the presence of men in an all male hut. The gender separation is taken to such extremes that boys and women use different walking paths around the village.