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

Table 3

Change in low back pain disability.

	Intervention (n = 16)			Control (n = 15)			Group difference
	Pre	Post		Pre	Post		Intervention pre-post	Control pre-post
Total score	15.4 ± 5.0	4.5 ± 3.3	<0.001	14.4 ± 4.1	8.9 ± 5.0	0.001	10.9 ± 4.7	5.4 ± 3.0	0.001
Pain intensity	2.6 ± 0.8	0.4 ± 0.5	0.001	2.8 ± 0.8	1.7 ± 1.1	0.002	2.2 ± 0.6	1.1 ± 0.7	0.005
Personal care	1.4 ± 0.8	0.1 ± 0.4	0.001	1.1 ± 0.5	0.6 ± 0.5	0.005	1.3 ± 0.8	0.5 ± 0.5	0.011
Lifting	2.3 ± 1.0	0.8 ± 0.6	0.001	1.6 ± 0.7	1.1 ± 0.8	0.007	1.6 ± 0.8	0.5 ± 0.6	0.002
Walking	0.9 ± 0.7	0.2 ± 0.6	0.008	1.0 ± 0.7	0.8 ± 0.6	0.083	0.7 ± 0.9	0.2 ± 0.4	0.037
Sitting	2.0 ± 0.8	1.0 ± 0.4	0.001	1.6 ± 0.6	1.1 ± 0.7	0.007	1.0 ± 0.7	0.5 ± 0.6	0.085
Standing	1.9 ± 0.9	0.9 ± 0.7	0.003	1.9 ± 0.9	1.2 ± 0.7	0.005	1.1 ± 1.0	0.7 ± 0.7	0.406
Sleeping	1.4 ± 0.9	0.3 ± 0.5	0.001	1.3 ± 0.8	0.7 ± 0.6	0.021	1.2 ± 0.8	0.6 ± 0.8	0.070
Social life	1.3 ± 0.8	0.3 ± 0.6	0.003	1.4 ± 0.6	0.9 ± 0.6	0.007	1.1 ± 1.0	0.6 ± 0.6	0.088
Travelling	1.5 ± 0.6	0.6 ± 0.5	0.001	1.6 ± 0.6	0.8 ± 0.7	0.002	0.9 ± 0.6	0.8 ± 0.6	0.521

Values are expressed as mean ± SD. .