Table 5.

Percentage of interventions applied in patients treated by a physical therapist in 2005, for the United States (FOTO), Israel (Maccabi) and the Netherlands (LiPZ), for the total patient population, patients treated for their lumbar spine and patients with ankle sprain*

Total population	FOTO	Maccabi	LiPZ
Therapeutic exercise/advice	78.0	79.4	84.5
Manual therapy	31.8	54.7	67.2
Prescription, application and/or fabrication of devices	2.2	2.9	1.6
Electrotherapeutic modalities	22.5	41.7	4.5
Physical agents and mechanical modalities	43.3	55.4	5.0
Other	3.2	7.6	2.3
Number of patients – treatment closed (abs.)	36,076	96,568	8,869
Lumbar spine treated
Therapeutic exercise/advice	86.0	81.2	82.5
Manual therapy	28.2	58.8	50.6
Prescription, application and/or fabrication of devices	1.2	1.2	0.1
Electrotherapeutic modalities	22.3	51.0	6.8
Physical agents and mechanical modalities	42.1	56.1	2.4
Other	4.6	5.0	1.4
Number of patients – treatment closed (abs.)	6,756	15,493	1,895
Treated for ankle sprain
Therapeutic exercise/advice	89.0	91.9	87.8
Manual therapy	22.6	43.9	15.4
Prescription, application and/or fabrication of devices	4.9	4.5	41.5
Electrotherapeutic modalities	27.8	34.0	0.8
Physical agents and mechanical modalities	56.0	58.8	1.6
Other	6.1	2.6	2.4
Number of patients – treatment closed (abs.)	327	1,411	123

* because of the differences in classifications no statistical tests were conducted