Table 3 Usage of modality-groups for treatment of typical patients with acute and chronic non specific neck-pain
Acute | Chronic | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Used | Not used | Used | Not used | ||||||||||
Treatment usage | Often | Occ.* | Rarely | Never | Refer | OSP** | Often | Occ* | Rarely | Never | Refer | OSP** | p-valuea |
Manipulation | 306 (93,9%) | 13 (4%) | 3 (0,9%) | 3 (0,9%) | 1 (0,3%) | 0 (0%) | 288 (91,1%) | 21 (6,6%) | 3 (0,9%) | 3 (0,9%) | 1 (0,3%) | 0 (0%) | 0,189 |
Other manual therapies | 199 (64,8%) | 72 (23,5%) | 28 (9,1%) | 6 (2%) | 2 (0,7%) | 0 (0%) | 204 (66,7%) | 76 (24,8%) | 17 (5,6%) | 8 (2,6%) | 1 (0,3%) | 0 (0%) | 0,630 |
Other treatment modalities | 101 (34,5%) | 87 (29,7%) | 79 (27%) | 21 (7,2%) | 5 (1,7%) | 0 (0%) | 138 (46%) | 107 (35,7%) | 48 (16%) | 5 (1,7%) | 2 (0,7%) | 0 (0%) | 0,004* |
Exercise | 56 (19,1%) | 91 (31,1%) | 109 (37,2%) | 32 (10,9%) | 3 (1%) | 2 (0,7%) | 196 (62,8%) | 82 (26,3%) | 24 (7,7%) | 3 (1%) | 4 (1,3%) | 3 (1%) | <0,001* |
Orthoses | 1 (0,4%) | 20 (7,1%) | 79 (28,1%) | 181 (64,4%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 13 (4,5%) | 48 (16,7%) | 90 (31,3%) | 131 (45,5%) | 4 (1,4%) | 2 (0,7%) | 0,001* |
Information/patient education | 302 (94,4%) | 15 (4,7%) | 2 (0,6%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (0,3%) | 0 (0%) | 309 (97,5%) | 6 (1,9%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (0,6%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0,189 |