Clinical indicators for recommending continued care to patients with neck pain in chiropractic practice: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chiropractors' clinical indicators for recommending preventive continued care to patients with low back pain include previous pain episodes, a history of long pain duration and improvement after initial treatment. Our objectives were, in a cohort of patients with neck pain, to examine whether these clinical indicators were associated with being recommended continued care beyond 4 weeks, and if so whether this recommendation was dependent of chiropractor characteristics, as well as if the number of clinical indicators influenced this recommendation.

Methods

In this multi-center observational study, 172 patients seeking care for a new episode of neck pain in chiropractic practice in Norway were included between September 2015 and May 2016. The chiropractors treated

SUBMITTER: Myhrvold BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10472687 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature