Manual Therapy (Postisometric Relaxation and Joint Mobilization) in Knee Pain and Function Experienced by Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Randomized Clinical Pilot Study

Table 2

Baseline characteristics of the 46 patients with knee pain and with rheumatoid arthritis.

	Manual therapy group (n = 23)	Control group (n = 23)	t
Age (years)	59.7 (12.15)	57.7 (8.00)	0.66	0.5131
Body mass (kg)	75.9 (12.20)	70.3 (16.20)	1.33	0.1917
Body height (cm)	159.4 (8.30)	160.0 (5.87)	−0.33	0.7444
DAS28	4.66 (0.43)	4.31 (0.90)	1.12	0.2289
BMI (kg/m^2)	30.1 (5.49)	27.5 (6.61)	1.41	0.1649
NSAID (n)	16	17
DMARDsynthetic (n)	11	13	χ ^2 = 0.22	0.8972
DMARDbiologics (n)	7	6

The results are expressed as mean (SD); BMI: body mass index; DAS 28: disease activity score; VAS: visual analog scale; NSAID: nonsteroidal anti-inflamatory drugs; DMARDs: disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs; : values.