Low Back Region 1

Question 1

What accounts for 50% of all patients treated in outpatient physical therapy practice?

Answer 1

Back pain

Question 2

What is the most commonly prescribed drugs for low back pain?

Answer 2

Opioids

Question 3

How many prescriptions were dispensed for back pain in 2000?

Answer 3

44 million
(16% NSAIDS)

(10% COX-2 inhibitors)

(18% muscle relaxants)

Question 4

What is an inflammation reducer?

Answer 4

Pulsed ultrasound

Question 5

What is a muscle spasm reducer?

Answer 5

Soft tissue massage

Moist heat

Ice

Question 6

How effective is manipulation in patients with acute LBP?

Answer 6

45%

Question 7

What percentage of patients do not get treatments of proven effectiveness?

Answer 7

30-40%

Question 8

What percentage of patients get care that is not needed or potentially harmful?

Answer 8

20-25%

Question 9

What reduces medical service usage such as cost and pain in patients with LBP?

Answer 9

Early PT before physicians, spinal injections, or lumbar surgery

Question 10

What is associated with a decreased risk of imaging, physician visits, lumbar surgery, lumbar injections, and opioids?

Answer 10

Early PT

Question 11

How many people out of 10 will have had LBP in the last 3 months?

Answer 11

30%

Question 12

Where does LBP rank compared to other regions of the body?

Answer 12

1st

Knee is next closest

Back (28.1)
Knee (19.1)

Question 13

What is the healthcare cost of LBP?

Answer 13

90 billion

Question 14

What’s the healthcare cost of cancer?

Answer 14

95 billion

Question 15

What’s the healthcare cost of diabetes?

Answer 15

100 billion

Question 16

What are opioids given for back pain leading to?

Answer 16

Increased death rate due to overdose

Question 17

What does it mean by all physical therapists are not the same?

Answer 17

Some PT is effective, whereas others are not

(Give the right care to the right patient at the right time)