Table 1.
Participant demographics and reported pain diagnoses
| Total sample |
Respondents | Used Chiro Only |
Used Acu Only |
Used both | No Acu/chiro use |
p-value1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N=8264 | N=6068 | n=1579 | n=677 | n=1278 | n=2534 | N=6068 | |
| Female (%) | 69 | 71 | 68 | 75 | 76 | 68 | <.0001 |
| Age (mean/sd) | 61 ± 14 | 61 ± 13 | 59 ± 13 | 61 ± 14 | 58 ± 13 | 64 ± 13 | <.0001 |
| Caucasian (%) | 93 | 94 | 95 | 94 | 94 | 94 | 0.6374 |
| Self-reported diagnoses from survey (%) | |||||||
| Back | 64 | 75 | 62 | 76 | 51 | <.0001 | |
| Joint pain | 57 | 57 | 56 | 57 | 57 | 0.9719 | |
| Arthritis | 54 | 54 | 56 | 49 | 56 | 0.0018 | |
| Extremity | 56 | 55 | 57 | 56 | 56 | 0.6739 | |
| Neck | 38 | 47 | 36 | 53 | 26 | <.0001 | |
| Muscle | 31 | 32 | 31 | 41 | 25 | <.0001 | |
| Headache | 23 | 26 | 22 | 33 | 15 | <.0001 | |
| Fibromyalgia | 15 | 16 | 17 | 22 | 11 | <.0001 | |
| Abdomen/pelvis | 10 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 9 | <.0001 | |
| Other | 10 | 9 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 0.0190 | |
two-tailed p-value for comparing four usage groups based on 1-way ANOVA (continuous data) or Pearson chi-square test (proportions)