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26 Physiotherapy & Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine KCE reports 87
Figure 1 : Global rehabilitation consumption by age
% of population
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% of population who had, at least, one treatment
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
age (year)
2003 : persons who had physical medecine or therapy or rehabilitation agreement
2004 : persons who had physical medecine or therapy or rehabilitation agreement
2005 : persons who had physical medecine or therapy or rehabilitation agreement
The specific consumption of physiotherapy increases according to age (Figure 2). A peak
in consumption is also observed for infants aged less than 1 year. The next peak
(between 25 and 35 years) is linked to pregnancy. This peak disappears (see Figure 3)
when suppressing the physiotherapy linked to perinatal conditions.
Figure 2 : Physiotherapy consumption by age
% of population
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30
25
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% of population who had, at least, one treatment of
physical therapy
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
age (year)
2003 : persons who had physical therapy
2004 : persons who had physical therapy
2005 : persons who had physical therapy
Over the age of 25, regardless of age, physiotherapy is more frequent among women
(±5% more) than among men (Figure 3). These differences remain identical after the
exclusion of perinatal physiotherapy.
Between 25 and 69 years, the percentage of women consumers is 1.58 times higher on
average than that of men.