Mud Therapy Combined with Core Exercise for Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain: A Pilot, Single-Blind, Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 1

General characteristics of participants by study group.

	Intervention group (n = 16)	Control group (n = 15)
Sex
Male	0	3	0.101
Female	16	12
Age (year)	61.3 ± 9.6	55.8 ± 16.4	0.227
Height (cm)	157.3 ± 4.8	160.9 ± 8.3	0.243
Weight (kg)	59.5 ± 16.7	60.9 ± 13.9	0.069
Duration (year)	10.6 ± 9.7	9.9 ± 5.6	0.921
Pain intensity
At rest	5.0 ± 1.6	4.9 ± 1.4	0.886
During movement	6.2 ± 1.9	6.1 ± 1.8	0.809

Values are expressed as mean ± SD. Number of participants.