Table 4.
Patient conditions for which physiotherapy was prescribed before and during the COVID-19 outbreak.
| Patient conditions | Beforea | Duringb | Adjusted residual valuec | ||||
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Mean per month (SD) | % | Mean per month (SD) | % |
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| Stroke | 20.3 (6.0) | 11.7 | 93.3 (13.4) | 9.2 | –0.9, 0.9 | ||
| Weakness and deconditioning | 15.8 (2.7) | 9.1 | 46.8 (4.6) | 4.6 | –2.5, 2.5c | ||
| Neurological | 14.0 (2.9) | 8.0 | 29.2 (9.9) | 2.9 | –3.4, 3.4c | ||
| Knee pain | 12.3 (2.7) | 7.1 | 67.0 (39.3) | 6.6 | –0.1, 0.1 | ||
| Lower back pain | 10.0 (5.5) | 5.7 | 138.5 (62.8) | 13.7 | –2.9, 2.9c | ||
| Other fracture | 9.8 (4.2) | 5.6 | 34.2 (16.6) | 3.4 | –1.5, 1.5 | ||
| Pain and injury | 6.8 (3.9) | 4.0 | 90.3 (45.1) | 8.9 | –2.2, 2.2c | ||
| Cancer | 5.8 (2.7) | 3.3 | 37.7 (10.4) | 3.7 | –0.2, 0.2 | ||
| Fall | 3.0 (1.2) | 1.7 | 24.2 (6.5) | 2.4 | –0.5, 0.5 | ||
| Neurosurgical | 2.5 (2.1) | 1.4 | 13.3 (8.3) | 1.3 | –0.5, 0.5 | ||
| Pulmonary | 4.0 (0.5) | 2.3 | 14.3 (5.9) | 1.4 | –0.9, 0.9 | ||
| Neck pain | 2.0 (1.1) | 1.1 | 46.0 (27.0) | 4.5 | –2.1, 2.1c | ||
| Fracture hip | 5.0 (1.9) | 2.9 | 53.2 (13.5) | 5.2 | –1.3, 1.3 | ||
| Shoulder pain | 1.5 (0.7) | 0.9 | 20.3 (5.5) | 2.0 | –0.8, 0.8 | ||
| Cardiac | 1.8 (1.1) | 1.0 | 19.5 (6.0) | 1.9 | –0.8, 0.8 | ||
| Other conditions | 59.3 (20.4) | 34.1 | 287.3 (63.3) | 28.3 | –1.5, 1.5 | ||
| Total count | 173.9 | 100 | 1015.2 | 100 | N/Ad | ||
aOctober 2019 to January 2020.
bFebruary 2020 to July 2020.
cStatistically significant 95% confidence interval (<–1.96 and >1.96).
dN/A: not applicable.