Patient–Physician Differences in Desired Characteristics of NSAID Plasters: An Online Survey
Table 3
Patient survey: pain management strategy by pain site (multiple responses allowed).
Site
Neck
Shoulder
Arm
Hand/wrist
Upper back
Lower back
Hip joint
Knee
Foot/ankle
Other
Total
227
348
127
153
158
410
98
229
132
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Prescribed medicine (including plasters) at a medical institution (%)
148 (65.2)
242 (69.5)
89 (70.1)
96 (62.7)
89 (56.3)
340 (82.9)
53 (54.1)
159 (69.4)
83 (62.9)
3 (100)
Purchases over-the-counter medicine (including plasters) (%)
58 (25.6)
88 (25.3)
33 (26.0)
36 (23.5)
42 (26.6)
87 (21.2)
17 (17.3)
45 (19.7)
35 (26.5)
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Receiving massages or rehabilitative therapy (%)
79 (34.8)
98 (28.2)
34 (26.8)
30 (19.6)
46 (29.1)
105 (25.6)
21 (21.4)
36 (15.7)
32 (24.2)
2 (66.7)
Exercise and stretching (%)
79 (34.8)
118 (33.9)
32 (25.2)
30 (19.6)
45 (28.5)
129 (31.5)
36 (36.7)
69 (30.1)
36 (27.3)
—
Other (%)
—
—
—
3 (2.0)
1 (0.6)
3 (0.7)
—
3 (1.3)
1 (0.8)
1 (33.3)
No particular strategy (%)
16 (7.0)
17 (4.9)
8 (6.3)
18 (11.8)
20 (12.7)
13 (3.2)
13 (13.3)
27 (11.8)
10 (7.6)
—
Pain management strategies differed by site. 82.9% of patients with lower-back pain seek medical care while only 54.1% of patients seek medical care for hip-joint pain.
