Who seeks primary care for musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) with physicians prescribing homeopathic and other complementary medicine? Results from the EPI3-LASER survey in France

Table 2 Characteristics of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) in three types of primary care practice (N = 1,692)

	Type of primary care practice
	Conventional Medicine	Mixed	Homeopathic
	(N = 366)	(N = 778)	(N = 548)
MSD site (%)
Spinal	37.7	41.2	35.9
Non-spinal	62.3	58.8	64.1
Chronicity (%)
>12 weeks	48.6	50.3	62.1
Physician role¹ (%)
Treating	84.0	81.8	54.1
Consulting	16.0	18.2	45.9
Adjusted Odds ratios²
Risk of chronicity (vs. conventional medicine)	1 (--)	0.98 (0.77 - 1.26)	1.43 (1.07 - 1.89)
Risk of chronicity when Consulting (vs. Treating)	1.12 (0.63 - 1.99)	1.48 (1.06 - 2.12)	1.75 (1.22 - 2.50)

1. Role of the physician as declared by the patient; in France every citizen has to choose a physician as their regular treating physician (treating), physicians who are not the regular treating physician are called here consulting physicians.
2. Logistic regression models controlling for all variables in Table 1 and 2.

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