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Aims: The present study examines the outcome of counselling in physiotherapy based on the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) in a sample of elderly individuals with chronic low back pain.

Methods: In a prospective randomised trial with concealed assignment, elderly individuals with chronic low back pain were allocated to two treatment conditions. Both contained 10 sessions of physiotherapy, each of 20min duration.

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Objective: A systematic epidemiological comparison of body weights of patients with anorexia nervosa can be enhanced by the use of age percentiles for the body mass index.

Method: To demonstrate the feasibility of this approach, body mass indices of 81 female adolescents with anorexia nervosa were calculated from anthropometric data upon admission for inpatient treatment and at follow-up and set into relationship to the age-dependent distribution of the body mass index in a large and representative sample of the German population. The percentiles were used to visualize the weight increase over time of each former patient by aligning the body mass index at referral with the respective body mass index at follow-up.

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