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Table 4 Usual care of knee osteoarthritis and knee meniscal and ligament injury, excluding prescription medication use

From: Analysis of medical service use of knee osteoarthritis and knee meniscal and ligament injuries in Korea: a cross-sectional study of national patient sample data

 

Subtypes

Total

Inpatient

Outpatient

Knee OA

Knee meniscal and ligament injury

Knee OA

Knee meniscal and ligament injury

Knee OA

Knee meniscal and ligament injury

N = 48,321

%

N = 19,136

%

N = 3084

%

N = 2434

%

N = 48,000

%

N = 18,540

%

Surgery

Replacement Arthroplasty, Total Arthroplasty, knee

1466

3.03

1

0.01

1466

47.54

1

0.04

–

–

–

–

Replacement Arthroplasty, Hemiarthroplasty, knee

89

0.18

–

–

89

2.89

–

–

–

–

–

–

Revision of Replacement Arthroplasty, Total Arthroplasty, knee

26

0.05

–

–

26

0.84

–

–

–

–

–

–

Revision of Replacement Arthroplasty, Hemiarthroplasty, knee

8

0.02

–

–

8

0.26

–

–

–

–

–

–

Menisectomy, Medial or Lateral

182

0.38

586

3.06

182

5.90

584

23.99

–

–

2

0.01

Menisectomy, Medial and Lateral

44

0.09

151

0.79

44

1.43

151

6.20

–

–

–

–

Repair of Meniscus, Medial or Lateral

18

0.04

222

1.16

18

0.58

222

9.12

–

–

–

–

Repair of Meniscus, Medial and Lateral

2

0.00

35

0.18

2

0.06

35

1.44

–

–

–

–

Reconstruction of Cruciate Ligament

–

–

446

2.33

–

–

446

18.32

–

–

–

–

Repair of Cruciate Ligament

1

0.00

11

0.06

1

0.03

11

0.45

–

–

–

–

Injection

Intraarticular Injection

26,883

55.63

334

1.75

427

13.85

107

4.40

26,695

55.61

296

1.60

Subcutaneous or Intramuscular Injection

19,722

40.81

6457

33.74

2572

83.40

1775

72.93

18,265

38.05

5279

28.47

Physiotherapy

Superficial Heat Therapy

24,261

50.21

8774

45.85

1486

48.18

952

39.11

23,575

49.11

8319

44.87

Deep Heat Therapy

22,128

45.79

8032

41.97

1285

41.67

863

35.46

21,511

44.81

7603

41.01

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation

14,281

29.55

4804

25.10

969

31.42

572

23.50

13,736

28.62

4467

24.09

Interferential Current Therapy

12,306

25.47

4195

21.92

980

31.78

563

23.13

11,698

24.37

3853

20.78

Laser Therapya

3423

7.08

1705

8.91

327

10.60

216

8.87

3172

6.61

1557

8.40

Therapeutic Exercisea

2016

4.17

811

4.24

1806

58.56

652

26.79

612

1.28

381

2.06

Simple Therapeutic Exercise

1712

3.54

673

3.52

434

14.07

174

7.15

1358

2.83

537

2.90

Cold Therapy, Cold Pack

1119

2.32

785

4.10

423

13.72

195

8.01

774

1.61

647

3.49

Myofascial Trigger Point Injection Therapyb

609

1.26

58

0.30

37

1.20

7

0.29

576

1.20

51

0.28

  1. OA Osteoarthritis
  2. aSimple rehabilitation treatments, which can be prescribed by specialists of rehabilitation medicine, orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, neurology, general surgery, cardiovascular surgery, and anesthesiology
  3. bComplex rehabilitation treatment, which can only be prescribed by specialists of rehabilitation medicine
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