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Table 2 Spearman’s correlation coefficient between the rate 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)

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

 

JT facilities

Orthopedists

Elderly patients of MDs

Elderly patients of JTs

0.72 (P < 0.01)

−0.07 (P = 0.63)

0.06 (P = 0.68)

Elderly patients of MDs

0.11 (P = 0.44)

0.32 (P = 0.03)

–

Orthopedists

−0.08 (P = 0.61)

–

–

  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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