Table 2 Clinical management characteristics including components of the clinical care/management plan, subgroups of patients and conditions they present with at the chiropractors
Clinical management | Percent often |
|---|---|
Discuss | |
 Physical activity | 84.9 |
 Diet/nutrition | 50.5 |
 Occupational health and safety | 40.9 |
 Nutritional supplements | 37.1 |
 Smoking/drugs/alcohol | 24.8 |
 Pain counselling | 24.6 |
 Medications | 23.1 |
Patient subgroups | |
 Older people (65 years and over) | 73.5 |
 Athletes or sports people | 49.5 |
 Children (4 to 18 years) | 53.2 |
 Pregnant women | 36.7 |
 People with work-related injuries | 36.2 |
 Children (up to 3 years) | 30.1 |
 People with traffic-related injuries | 13.7 |
 Non-English speaking ethnic groups | 6.5 |
 People receiving post-surgical rehabilitation | 6.4 |
 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people | 1.8 |
Presenting condition(s) | |
 Low back pain (axial) | 94.7 |
 Neck pain (axial) | 93.6 |
 Headache disorders | 87.2 |
 Thoracic pain (axial) | 84.7 |
 Low back pain (referred/radicular) | 80.9 |
 Spinal health maintenance/prevention | 73.1 |
 Degenerative spine conditions | 64.8 |
 Neck pain (referred/radicular) | 62.8 |
 Upper limb musculoskeletal disorders | 62.6 |
 Postural disorders | 61.3 |
 Lower limb musculoskeletal disorders | 60.4 |
 Migraine disorders | 53.0 |
 Thoracic pain (referred/radicular) | 46.4 |
 Non-musculoskeletal disorders | 30.0 |