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The setting was an outpatient clinic. General practitioners were asked to refer patients for treatment as soon as possible. The authors enrolled 250 patients (&lt; 60 years of age) with sciatica of less than 1-month's duration and who had not yet been treated with bed rest or physiotherapy. Primary outcome measures were radicular pain (based on a visual analog pain scale [VAPS]) and hampered ADLs (Quebec Disability Scale [QDS]). Secondary outcome measures were the rates of treatment-related failure and surgical treatment. Measures were assessed at baseline and during follow up at 1, 2, and 6 months.<\/jats:p>\n<jats:p content-type=\"fine-print\">Mean differences in VAPS and QDS scores between bed rest and control treatment were 2.5 (95% confidence interval [CI] \u22126.4 to 11.4) and \u22124.8 (95% CI \u221210.6 to 0.9) at 1 month and 0.9 (95% CI \u22128.7 to 10.4) and \u22122.7 (95% CI \u22129.9 to 4.4) at 2 months, respectively. The respective differences between physiotherapy and control treatment were 0.8 (95% CI \u22128.2 to 9.8) and \u22120.5 (95% CI \u22126.3 to 5.3) at 1 month and \u22120.3 (95% CI \u22129.4 to 10) and 0.0 (95% CI \u22127.2 to 7.3) at 2 months. The respective odds ratios for treatment failure and surgical treatment of bed rest compared with control treatment were 1.6 (95% CI 0.8\u20133.5) and 1.5 (95% CI 0.7\u20133.6) at 6 months. When physiotherapy was compared with control treatment, these ratios were 1.5 (95% CI 0.7\u20133.2) and 1.2 (95% CI 0.5\u20132.9) at 6 months, respectively.<\/jats:p>\n<jats:p content-type=\"fine-print\"><jats:italic>Conclusions.<\/jats:italic> Bed rest and physiotherapy are not more effective in acute sciatica than continuation of ADLs.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3171\/spi.2002.96.1.0045","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,5,7]],"date-time":"2009-05-07T15:56:22Z","timestamp":1241711782000},"page":"45-49","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":32,"title":["Westeinde Sciatica Trial: randomized controlled study of bed rest and physiotherapy for acute sciatica"],"prefix":"10.3171","volume":"96","author":[{"given":"Derk J.","family":"Hofstee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Johanna M. 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