Table 3 Patient clinical outcomes following advanced practice physiotherapy assessments by body region of presenting musculoskeletal disorder
Clinical Outcome | Body Regions of presenting musculoskeletal disorder | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Knee | Lumbar-spine | Shoulder | Multiple Joint | Foot/ ankle | Hip | Hand/ wrist | Cervical-spine | Elbow | Thoracic-spine | |
(n = 3569) | (n = 3502) | (n = 2429) | (n = 1525) | (n = 1367) | (n = 1139) | (n = 1011) | (n = 716) | (n = 222) | (n = 177) | |
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
Clinical Investigationsa | 1153 (32.3) | 961 (27.4) | 578 (23.8) | 642 (42.1) | 332 (24.3) | 418 (36.7) | 336 (33.2) | 182 (25.4) | 60 (27.0) | 62 (35.0) |
Injections | 129 (3.6) | 35 (1.0) | 389 (16.0) | 21 (1.4) | 9 (0.7) | 30 (2.6) | 44 (4.4) | 3 (0.4) | 15 (6.8) | 1 (0.6) |
Surgical listingb | 114 (3.2) | 18 (0.5) | 98 (4.0) | 15 (1.0) | 19 (1.4) | 58 (5.1) | 55 (5.4) | 2 (0.3) | 7 (3.2) | 0 (0) |
Consultant servicesc | 730 (21.6) | 418 (12.6) | 364 (15.6) | 238 (15.6) | 204 (15.4) | 345 (32.9) | 257 (25.9) | 71 (10.2) | 42 (19.3) | 17 (10.6) |
Physiotherapyd | 1565 (44.7) | 1393 (40.9) | 988 (41.8) | 646 (42.5) | 630 (46.9) | 393 (36.7) | 165 (16.8) | 369 (52.9) | 88 (40.9) | 86 (50.0) |
(n = 1573) | (n = 1461) | (n = 1021) | (n = 749) | (n = 586) | (n = 565) | (n = 392) | (n = 296) | (n = 77) | (n = 81) | |
Clinical Imaginge | 491 (31.2) | 387 (26.5) | 221 (21.6) | 247 (33.0) | 139 (23.7) | 191 (33.8) | 59 (15.1) | 75 (25.3) | 16 (20.8) | 21 (25.9) |