Table 1. Diagnostic code inclusions.
Spine pain was defined by the primary diagnosis assigned by the treating physician during the new patient encounter using the International Classification of Diseases codes (ICD-9).
| Diagnosis | ICD-9 Code |
Frequency (n) |
Percent (%) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neck and Upper Extremities |
Cervicalgia, Neck | 723.1 | 84 | 15.3 |
| Facet Arthropathy Cervical OR Spondylosis w/o Myelopathy Cervical |
721 | 12 | 2.2 | |
| Degenerative Disc Cervical | 722.4 | 3 | 0.5 | |
| Radiculopathy Cervical OR Cervical- radiculitis/neck |
723.4 | 7 | 1.3 | |
| Spondylosis w Myelopathy Cervical | 721.1 | 1 | 0.2 | |
| Post Laminectomy Syndrome Cervical | 722.81 | 2 | 0.4 | |
| Spinal Stenosis Cervical | 723 | 3 | 0.5 | |
| Mid-Back | Thoracic Spine- Mid-back | 724.1 | 26 | 4.7 |
| Herniated Nucleus Pulposus- Thoracic | 722.11 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Low Back and Lower Extremities |
Low back/Lumbago | 724.2 | 269 | 49.1 |
| Degenerative Disc Lumbar | 722.52 | 11 | 2.0 | |
| Facet Arthropathy Lumbar OR Spondylosis w/o Myelopathy Lumbosacral |
721.3 | 13 | 2.4 | |
| Herniated Nucleus Pulposus Lumbar | 722.1 | 17 | 3.1 | |
| Radiculopathy Thoracic/Lumbar | 724.4 | 30 | 5.5 | |
| Spinal Stenosis Lumbar | 724.02 | 27 | 4.9 | |
| Post Laminectomy Syndrome Lumbar | 722.83 | 32 | 5.8 | |
| Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction | 739.4 | 9 | 1.6 | |
| Sacroilitis | 720.2 | 2 | 0.4 | |
| Total | 548 |