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Table 2 Medical surgical history

From: Methodology and demographics of a single blinded, randomized controlled trial of chiropractic compared to physical therapy for balance impairments in community dwelling geriatric patients with or without low back pain

Medical surgical history

Physical therapyn = 85 (50.6%)

Chiropractic caren = 83 (49.4%)

Totaln = 168

History of Falls

(46.1%)

(48.1%)

(47.1%)

Smoker History

(46.1%)

(44.0%)

(45.0%)

Smoker Current

(10.5%)

(10.7%)

(10.6%)

Hypertension

(60.2%)

(60.5%)

(60.4%)

Myocardial Infarction

(3.6%)

(12.3%)

(7.9%)

Congestive Heart Failure

(6.0%)

(6.2%)

(6.1%)

Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes

(18.1%)

(8.6%)

(13.4%)

Peripheral Vascular Disease

(3.6%)

(4.9%)

(4.3%)

Deep Vein Thrombosis

(2.4%)

(8.6%)

(5.5%)

Stroke

(1.2%)

(4.9%)

(3.0%)

Peripheral Neuropathy

(10.8%)

(13.6%)

(12.2%)

Rheumatoid Arthritis

(2.4%)

(2.5%)

(2.4%)

Spinal Stenosis

(8.4%)

(8.6%)

(8.5%)

Low Back Pain

(67.1%)

(73.5%)

(70.2%)

Osteoarthritis

(59.0%)

(50.6%)

(54.9%)

Ruptured Disc

(14.5%)

(3.7%)

(9.1%)

Dementia

(0.0%)

(1.2%)

(0.6%)

Head Injury

(1.2%)

(2.5%)

(1.8%)

Other Neurological Injury

(2.4%)

(2.5%)

(2.4%)

Head and Neck surgery

(6.1%)

(5.0%)

(5.6%)

Coronary artery bypass surgery

(9.8%)

(13.8%)

(11.7%)

Lung surgery

(2.4%)

(0.0%)

(1.2%)

Gastrointestinal surgery

(6.1%)

(11.3%)

(8.6%)

Orthopedic surgery

(41.5%)

(35.0%)

(38.3%)