. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 7.

Published in final edited form as: Foot Ankle Int. 2012 Sep;33(9):693–698. doi: 10.3113/FAI.2012.0693

Table 2.

Treatment Types

	Total	Acute	Chronic	p-value^*

	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)
Previous Number of providers		0.37 (0.6)	1.2 (1.0)	0.001
Previous number of treatments		1.5 (1.4)	3.7 (2.3)	0.001

	N(%)	N(%)	N(%)	p-value^**

Cortisone injection	60 (33.0%)	12 (12.9%)	48 (53.9%)	0.001
Physical Therapy	71 (39.0%)	21 (22.6%)	50 (56.2%)	0.001
Massage	40 (22.0%)	10 (10.8%)	30 (33.7%)	0.001
Orthotics	90 (49.5%)	31 (33.3%)	59 (66.3%)	0.001
NSAIDS	101 (55.5%)	50 (53.8%)	51 (57.3%)	0.63
Narcotics	16 (8.8%)	5 (5.4%)	11(12.4%)	0.10
Steroid (pills)	3 (1.6%)	0 (0)	3 (3.4%)	0.07
Boot/Cast	33 (18.1%)	6 (6.5%)	27 (30.3%)	0.001
Night splint	13 (7.1%)	5 (5.4%)	8 (9.0%)	0.34
Brace	9 (4.9%)	3 (3.2%)	6 (6.7%)	0.29
Surgery	4 (2.2%)	1 (1.1%)	3 (3.4%)	0.30
ECSWT	4 (2.2%)	0 (0)	4 (4.5%)	0.04
Prolotherapy	1 (0.5%)	0 (0)	1 (1.1%)	0.31
Laser	3 (1.6%)	0 (0)	3 (3.4%)	0.07
TOPAZ	2 (1.1%)	0 (0)	2 (2.2%)	0.15
Other	24 (13.2%)	4 (4.3%)	20 (22.5%)	0.001

T-test,

^**

Chi-square test