Feasibility and Effectiveness of Telephone-Based Telephysiotherapy for Treatment of Pain in Low-Resource Setting: A Retrospective Pre-Post Design

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the participants (N = 15).

Code	Age (year)	Gender	Pain duration	Diagnosis
01	56	Female	Acute	Low back pain (mechanical)
02	61	Female	Subacute	Prolapse intervertebral disc
03	71	Male	Subacute	Rheumatoid arthritis
04	57	Male	Chronic	Coccydynia
05	60	Female	Subacute	Tennis elbow
06	63	Male	Acute	Traumatic ankle pain
07	40	Male	Subacute	Tennis elbow
08	41	Male	Acute	Neck pain
09	50	Female	Acute	Low back pain
10	40	Female	Subacute	Low back pain
11	36	Female	Subacute	Prolapse intervertebral disc
12	40	Female	Chronic	OA knee
13	60	Female	Subacute	Traumatic ankle pain
14	70	Male	Chronic	OA knee
15	48	Female	Subacute	Prolapse intervertebral disc
Mean (SD)/number (%)	Mean (SD): 52.8 (11.56)	Male: 6 (40%)	Acute: 4 (26.7%)	Low back pain: 3 (20%)
		Female: 9 (60%)	Subacute: 8 (53.3%)	PIVD: 3 (20%)
			Chronic: 3 (20%)	Rheumatoid arthritis: 1 (6.7%)
				Coccydynia: 1 (6.7%)
				Tennis elbow: 2 (13.3%)
				Traumatic ankle pain: 2 (13.3%)
				Neck pain: 1 (6.7%)
				OA knee: 2 (13.3%)

Note. PIVD: prolapse intervertebral disc, OA: osteoarthritis, and SD: standard deviation.