ArticleInternational journal of family medicine2014
Low back pain in primary care: a description of 1250 patients with low back pain in danish general and chiropractic practice.
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- Multimorbidity in patients with low back pain in Danish chiropractic practice: a cohort study.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2023Article
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- Management of people with low back pain: a survey of opinions and beliefs of Dutch and Belgian chiropractors.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2022Article
- Beliefs about back pain and associations with clinical outcomes: a primary care cohort study.BMJ open · 2022Observational
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- Contextualizing the lived experiences of patients with low back pain from different countries according to the ICF framework.Journal of rehabilitation medicine · 2021Article
- The Danish Chiropractic Low Back Pain Cohort (ChiCo): Description and Summary of an Available Data Source for Research Collaborations.Clinical epidemiology · 2020Article
- An App-Delivered Self-Management Program for People With Low Back Pain: Protocol for the selfBACK Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2019Article
- Back beliefs in patients with low back pain: a primary care cohort study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2019Observational
- Contrasting real time quantitative measures (weekly SMS) to patients' retrospective appraisal of their one-year's course of low back pain; a probing mixed-methods study.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2019Article
- Are frequent measurements in back pain research harmful? Two comparisons of back pain in groups with or without frequent follow-up.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2018Article
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Abstract
Study Design. Baseline description of a multicenter cohort study. Objective. To describe patients with low back pain (LBP) in both chiropractic and general practice in Denmark. Background. To optimize standards of care in the primary healthcare sector, detailed knowledge of the patient populations in different settings is needed. In Denmark, most LBP-patients access primary healthcare through chiropractic or general practice. Methods. Chiropractors and general practitioners recruited adult patients seeking care for LBP. Extensive baseline questionnaires were obtained and descriptive analyses presented separately for general and chiropractic practice patients, Mann-Whitney rank sum test and Pearson's chi-square test, were used to test for differences between the two populations. Results. Questionnaires were returned from 934 patients in chiropractic practice and 319 patients from general practice. Four out of five patients had had previous episodes, one-fourth were on sick leave, and the LBP considerably limited daily activities. The general practice patients were slightly older and less educated, more often females, and generally worse on all disease-related parameters than chiropractic patients. All differences were statistically significant. Conclusions. LBP in primary care was recurrent, causing sick leave and activity limitations. There were clear differences between the chiropractic and general practice populations in this study.
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