Table 3.
Complaint and treatment characteristics in physiotherapy practice
| |
Physiotherapy practice ( PT ) |
|
|---|---|---|
| GP =>PT ( n = 895 ) | Only PT ( n = 148 ) | |
| Recurrent complaint (% yes) † |
22 |
31 |
| Duration of complaints (%) |
|
|
| <1 month |
30 |
33 |
| Interventions1-3 months |
34 |
36 |
| >3 months |
36 |
31 |
| Previous physiotherapy (% yes) |
44 |
47 |
| Pain severity (NRS 0–10) (mean ± SD) (n = 210/57) * |
7 (1.7) |
7 (1.1) |
| Onset (%) (n = 238/62)* |
|
|
| Gradual |
76 |
71 |
| Sudden |
24 |
29 |
| Cause† (%) (n = 158/44)* |
|
|
| Sport |
13 |
41 |
| Work |
33 |
27 |
| Leisure activities |
13 |
18 |
| Other |
41 |
14 |
| Treatment sessions (mean ± SD) |
15 (18) |
15 (19) |
| Duration of treatment (mean ± SD, in weeks) |
13 (15) |
12 (15) |
| Treatment goals (%)† |
|
|
| Mobility |
47 |
33 |
| Muscle function |
11 |
20 |
| Pain |
11 |
13 |
| Other |
31 |
34 |
| Interventions (% used in ≥50% of the treatment sessions) |
|
|
| Mobilisation |
45 |
39 |
| Massage |
39 |
45 |
| Physical agent modalities |
12 |
13 |
| Exercise therapy – functions† |
70 |
55 |
| Exercise therapy – skills |
24 |
32 |
| Information & advice |
33 |
33 |
| Treatment goals fully reached (%) | 63 | 69 |
† Significant difference between ‘only PT patients’ and ‘GP =>PT patients’.
* Registration since 2009.