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Table 1 The numbers and rates of judo therapist (JT) facilities, orthopedists, elderly patients (≥70 years old) who visited judo therapists (elderly patients of JTs), and elderly patients who visited physicians for musculoskeletal disease (elderly patients of MDs) among prefectures in Japan (n = 47) (median and range in parentheses)

From: Competition or complement: relationship between judo therapists and physicians for elderly patients with musculoskeletal disease

 

Number

Rate per 100,000

JT facilities

297 (36–2,528)

16.3 (4.4–55.4)

Orthopedists

270 (113–1,877)

15.3 (9.3–22.3)

Elderly patients of JTs

6,159 (493–78,991)

2,515 (379–8,796)

Elderly patients of MDs

28,000 (11,000–181,000)

11,050 (7,870–15,000)

  1. Musculoskeletal disease refers to rheumatoid arthritis, arthrosis, spondylopathies, lumbago with sciatica, and osteoporosis defined within “Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue” of Chap. XIII, and fracture, and dislocation, sprain, and strain defined within “Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes” of Chap. XIX in ICD-10
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Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

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