Low Back Region 1 Flashcards
What accounts for 50% of all patients treated in outpatient physical therapy practice?
Back pain
What is the most commonly prescribed drugs for low back pain?
Opioids
How many prescriptions were dispensed for back pain in 2000?
44 million
(16% NSAIDS)
(10% COX-2 inhibitors)
(18% muscle relaxants)
What is an inflammation reducer?
Pulsed ultrasound
What is a muscle spasm reducer?
Soft tissue massage
Moist heat
Ice
How effective is manipulation in patients with acute LBP?
45%
What percentage of patients do not get treatments of proven effectiveness?
30-40%
What percentage of patients get care that is not needed or potentially harmful?
20-25%
What reduces medical service usage such as cost and pain in patients with LBP?
Early PT before physicians, spinal injections, or lumbar surgery
What is associated with a decreased risk of imaging, physician visits, lumbar surgery, lumbar injections, and opioids?
Early PT
How many people out of 10 will have had LBP in the last 3 months?
30%
Where does LBP rank compared to other regions of the body?
1st
Knee is next closest
Back (28.1)
Knee (19.1)
What is the healthcare cost of LBP?
90 billion
What’s the healthcare cost of cancer?
95 billion
What’s the healthcare cost of diabetes?
100 billion