Low Back Pain in Primary Care: A Description of 1250 Patients with Low Back Pain in Danish General and Chiropractic Practice

Table 2

Continuous, clinical variables from 934 LBP patients from chiropractic practice and 319 from general practice. GP: general practice; CP: chiropractic practice. Median (IQR).

Variable	Median (IQR); CP	Median (IQR); GP	CP/GP
Intensity LBP (0–10); (0 = no pain)	7 (5–8)	7 (6–8)	896/293	0.002
Intensity leg pain (1–10)^**; (1 = minimum detectable pain)	4 (2–6)	6 (3–8)	896/240	<0.001
Patient expectations^1 (1–10); (1 = no recovery)	9 (7–10)	6 (3–9)	926/295	<0.001
MDI^2 (0–60); (0 = no depressive symptoms)	6 (3–11)	9 (5–18)	924/294	<0.001
RM^3 (0–100); (0 = no limitations)	52 (35–70)	61 (39–78)	925/301	<0.001
FABQ-a^4 (0–24); (0 = no fear and avoidance beliefs)	13 (9–17)	14 (10–18)	893/289	0.009
FABQ-w^5 (0–42); (0 = no fear and avoidance beliefs)	11 (6–20)	14 (7–22)	801/229	<0.001
Self-perceived general health^6; (0–100); (0 = worst possible health)	70 (60–80)	60 (40–78)	908/238	<0.001

Mann-Whitney rank sum test for continuous variables to test for similar distributions between the two samples.
^**Only patients with >0 on the VAS scale included ( = 520/166)
¹“What do you think the chances are that you have recovered completely in three months?,” ²Major Depression Inventory, ³Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire, ⁴Fear Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire, physical activity, ⁵Fear Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire, work, ⁶Quality of Life (Euroqol 5D).