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KCE reports vol. 40 APPENDICES Physiotherapy 123
Cerebral palsy (n = 69; 6 1%)
Other significant pathology categories included general and unspecified conditions (9.34 0.77%),
cardiovascular (8.60 0.75%), respiratory (5.15 0.59%), and psychological (2.44 0.41%) disorders.
The most common RFT classified in general and unspecified conditions category was the presence of
orthopaedic joints implants (n = 286; 57 4% of the general and unspecified conditions), especially total hip (n
= 134) and total knee replacement (n = 120).
The most common RFT classified in cardiovascular category included stroke/cerebrovascular disorders (n =
231; 50 5% of the cardiovascular disorders) and lymphoedema/edema (n = 192; 41 5%; especially
postmastectomy lymphoedema (n = 104)).
The most common RFT classified in respiratory category included COPD (n = 137; 49 6% of the respiratory
disorders) and bronchitis/bronchiolitis (n = 66; 24 5%).
Finally, the most common RFT classified in psychological category included child behaviour symptom complaint
(i.e., delayed milestone (n = 60; 45 8% of the psychological disorders), dementia (n = 26; 20 7%), and
specific learning problems (n = 22; 17 6%)).
Pathologies treated during ambulatory physiotherapeutic sessions, proportion of co-morbidity, and age and sex
of the patients treated during these sessions are presented in Table 4.3 according to the pathology categories
of the ICPC-2. Data for the less represented pathology categories (particularly, from Urological to Eye) must
be interpreted with caution.
Psychological disorders present the highest level of co-morbidity indicating that it is relatively common to treat
psychological disorders with other conditions (22%), especially with musculoskeletal and neurological
disorders.