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