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Table 1 Baseline Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Trial Groups

From: The influence of a series of five dry cupping treatments on pain and mechanical thresholds in patients with chronic non-specific neck pain - a randomised controlled pilot study

SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS

TREATMENT GROUP

(N = 22)

MEAN ± SD

WAITING LIST CONTROL GROUP (N = 24)

MEAN ± SD

P

Age (years)

48.6 ± 11.2

53.0 ± 11.4

0.20

Sex (F/M)

15/7

20/4

0.27

BMI (kg/m2)

24.9 ± 4.0

24.1 ± 3.1

0.47

Pain at rest (PR)

45.5 ± 20.9

42.3 ± 18.0

0.58

Duration of neck pain (years)

6.3 ± 6.1

8.0 ± 7.6

0.41

Expected effectiveness of cupping therapy

(VAS from 0 = not effective at all to 100 = highly effective)

82.8 ± 13.6

72.4 ± 21.3

0.06