Table 2

Treatment experiences and preferences.

	Experienced success-rate of treatment^a		Treatment preference^b
Treatment	GP (%)	Advertisement (%)	GP (%) (no/unclear/yes)	Advertisement (%) (no/unclear/yes)
Behavioural therapy	–	10	2/90/8	15/73/12
Physiotherapy	47	27	10/34/46	11/38/51
Manual Therapy	64	31	10/77/13	18/61/21
Analgesics	59	48	69/26/5	77/16/7
NSAIDS	60	48	66/30/4	65/26/9
Corticosteroid injection	47	42	68/29/3	78/18/4
Surgery	64	39	79/20/1	81/16/3

↵a Patients who had prior experiences with common treatments for shoulder complaints were asked whether they had experienced these treatments as successful.
↵b Patients were asked to rate their treatment preference on a 5-point scale (1–2 = no; 3 = unclear; 4–5 = yes).