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The Nordic Maintenance Care Program: when do chiropractors recommend secondary and tertiary preventive care for low back pain?

Iben Axén1 email, Irene B Jensen1 email, Andreas Eklund2 email, Laszlo Halasz3 email, Kristian Jørgensen2 email, Fredrik Lange2 email, Peter W Lövgren2 email, Annika Rosenbaum4 email and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde5 email

The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Private practice, Stockholm, Sweden

Private practice, Lund, Sweden

Private practice, Linköping, Sweden

Nordic Institute for Chiropractic and Clinical Biomechanics, Part of Clinical Locomotion Science, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

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Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2009, 17:1doi:10.1186/1746-1340-17-1

Published: 22 January 2009

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Additional file 1:

Nine hypothetical cases of low back pain presented for discussion in a workshop among Swedish chiropractors and the responses provided by 7 groups.

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A questionnaire used to investigate the indications for maintenance care among 129 chiropractors working in Sweden.

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The distribution of gender (%), age (%) and years in clinical practise (%) among identifiable respondents to a questionnaire survey among Swedish chiropractors as compared to members of the Swedish Chiropractors' Association, SCA.

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Summary of replies to a questionnaire completed by 129 chiropractors working in Sweden, on factors considered important when recommending maintenance care.

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Test-retest of a questionnaire measuring the importance of 14 factors considered by 17 chiropractors before recommending MC to a patient.

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