Additional medication, co-interventions and diagnostics
During the first 12 weeks more patients in the intervention
group had additional treatments and diagnostic measures
compared with the control group. However, co-interventions,
especially the cortisone injections, had no significant influence
on between-group comparisons (13).
After one year similar figures were found for additional
interventions and diagnostics in both groups. However, 2 patients
in the intervention group, but only 1 in the control group,
underwent surgery. An overview of additional treatments and
diagnostics is shown in Table III.