Introduction. Neck pain is one of the main causes of incapacity for work. The economic impact of neck pain is considerable due to the cost of medical treatment and physiotherapy. Accidents in itinere, those that occur on the way between home and the workplace, can cause pain and functional impairment. Objective. To analyze the relationship between the time off work following accidents on the way to and from work and the type of treatment received. Material and method. Multicenter retrospective cohort study. Data will be collected from 146 patients. The primary variable of the study will be the time on sick leave (in days), with the type of intervention received (manual therapy or not) being the dependent variable. The secondary variables, estimated as modifying or confounding, will be the intensity of the pain (visual analog scale), sex, age, occupational cervical strain, type of contract (salaried/self-employed) and the number of physiotherapy sessions received.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
204
As this is an observational cohort study, there will be no intervention. In this study, only retrospective data will be collected for subsequent analysis. Similarly, the aim is to assess the relationship between the time on sick leave and the type of physiotherapy treatment received by patients. As this is an observational and retrospective cohort study, there is no risk derived from the development of the study for the subjects whose data form part of the study.
Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Measurement of time off work
The dependent variable, time off work, will be measured in days.
Time frame: Screening visit
Measurement of type of intervention received
The secondary variable, type of intervention received, will be evaluated with a dichotomous coding: manual therapy or no manual therapy.
Time frame: Screening visit
Measurement of pain intensity at the time of medical discharge
The secondary variable, pain intensity at the time of medical discharge, will be collected with the recording of the visual analog scale (range 0-10)
Time frame: Screening visit
Measurement of the number of physiotherapy sessions received
The secondary variable, number of physiotherapy sessions received, will be measured quantitatively (in days of treatment administration). This value will be collected from the physiotherapy record
Time frame: Screening visit
Measurement of the type of employment contract of the patients
The secondary variable, type of employment contract of the patients, will be collected in a dichotomous qualitative variable (salaried/self-employed)
Time frame: Screening visit
Measuring the age of the patients
The secondary variable, age of the patients, will be collected in a quantitative variable of completed years (measured in days)
Time frame: Screening visit
Measurement of patients' occupational cervical strain
The secondary variable, patients' cervical strain , will be collected in a qualitative variable (Yes/No) depending on the type of work of the patients, their daily work may or may not require cervical strain.
Time frame: Screening visit
Measuring the gender of patients
The secondary variable, the gender of patients, will be collected in a qualitative variable (Female/Male).
Time frame: Screening visit
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