Manual therapy applied by general practitioners for nonspecific low back pain: results of the ManRück pilot-study

Table 6 Primary comparison of the difference of mean pain-reduction from Baseline to day 3 at VAS/NRS (0–10) (intervention group -control group)

Population	N	Difference^a of mean pain-reduction (VAS)	95%-CI^a	Standard error	p-value
ITT	87	0.309	−0.798,1.47	0.556	0.579
PP	74	0.593	−0.591,1.776	0.592	0.321

^aEstimated effects of mean and 95%-confidence interval from covariance-analysis, adjusted for baseline-value, treatment group and practice as independent variables; ITT means intention-to-treat, missing values were input by last value carrying forward; PP per-protocol, only available values were included; VAS-NRS (0–10); IG, usual treatment plus add-on-manual therapy, CG, usual treatment alone

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