TABLE 2

Descriptive statistics of the included patients and the number of participating physical therapists and physical therapy practices

Number of treatment episodes in the dataset4651
Female patients2440 (52.5%)
Age, years67.9 (9.4)
Treatment sessions49.2 (58.2)
Episode duration, weeks46.6 (50.3)
Physical therapists who provided the data229
Physical therapy practices that provided the data137

Data are presented as means (sd) or numbers and percentages of the total population.