An educational approach based on a non-injury model compared with individual symptom-based physical training in chronic LBP. A pragmatic, randomised trial with a one-year follow-up

Table 3 Treatments besides those involved in the project

	Educational approach		Physical training
End of treatment ? 2 months	Numbers of visits/ patients (responders)	Mean	Numbers of visits/ patients (responders)	Mean	p =
GP	95/29 (93)	1.0	92/30 (91)	1.0
Specialist	15/4 (93)	.2	3/1 (91)	.0
Physiother.	90/18 (93)	1.0	46/11 (91)	.5
Chiropractor	113*/14 (93)	1.2	50/13 (91)	.6
Others	55/12 (93)	.6	21/8 (91)	.2
Total	368/41 (93)	4.0	212/45 (91)	2.3	.87
2 → 6 months
GP	54/22 (88)	1.6	86/30 (89)	1.9
Specialist	5/2 (88)	.3	7/3 (89)	.3
Physiother.	99/13 (88)	3.5	93/10 (89)	3.4
Chiropractor	61/11 (88)	2.4	49/15 (89)	1.6
Others	74/13 (88)	2.9	65/9 (89)	2.4
Total	276/41 (88)	3.1	271/45 (89)	3.1	.65
6 → 12 months
GP	95/25 (86)	1.1	140/29 (77)	1.8
Specialist	12/6 (86)	.1	17/10 (77)	.2
Physiother.	103/18 (86)	1.2	132/15 (77)	1.7
Chiropractor	139/15 (86)	1.6	59/10 (77)	.8
Others	90/15 (86)	1.1	51/6 (77)	.7
Total	439/45 (86)	5.1	401/46 (77)	5.2	.83

The total number of visits are presented as related to those patients making these visits, as well as medians (and IQRs) and means across all those who answered. * One patient had 50 treatments.

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