Chronic low back pain is one of the most common, poorly understood, and potentially disabling chronic pain conditions from which older adults suffer. Many older adults remain quite functional despite chronic low back pain, and because age-related co morbidities often exist independently of pain (e.g., medical illnesses, sleep disturbance, mobility difficulty), the unique impact of low back pain may not be known. As we age, spinal discs, joints, ligaments, muscles and other sp