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Table 1 Who might be an MC candidate patient?

From: The Nordic maintenance care program: what is maintenance care? Interview based survey of Danish chiropractors

Unlikely

Could be

• The acute or ‘first episode’ patient

• A past history of chronicity and/or extended courses of treatment

• Peadiatric patient

• More likely to be female

 

• Patients complaining of ‘muscular’ trouble (e.g. tension)

 

• Occupations where taxing physical labor form a predictable part of the working day.

 

• Biomechanical/structural variant (e.g. scoliosis)