Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Research Article

Safety and Effectiveness of Vibration Massage by Deep Oscillations: A Prospective Observational Study

Table 7

Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ), pain (visual analogue scale (VAS)), quality of life subscales of SF-36 (physical functioning index (pfi), role-physical index (rolph), body-pain index (pain), general health perceptions index (ghp), vitality index (vital), social functioning index (social), role-emotional index (rolem), mental health index (mhi), health transition item (rawhtran), physical component summary (pcs) and mental component summary (mcs)), and pain (SES; affective and sensory scores (-values)) before therapy (I1), after therapy (I2), and 2 months after I2 (I3) with deep oscillation massage; mean and 95% confidence interval (95% CI).


Outcome measures	I1	I2	I3	value

FIQ	59.7 (56.5; 63.0)	48.2 (44.2; 52.2)	48.5 (44.4; 52.6)	<0.001^#

VAS	6.34 (5.85; 6.83)	4.55 (4.01; 5.10)	5.15 (4.64; 5.66)	<0.001^#

SF 36
pfi	45.7 (40.5; 50.9)	54.8 (49.0; 60.4)	52.1 (46.7; 57.5)	<0.002^#
rolph	16.1 (9.6; 22.5)	35.0 (26.1; 43.9)	30.0 (21.2; 38.8)	<0.005^#
pain	32.1 (28.7; 35.4)	42.4 (38.4; 46.4)	41.7 (37.0; 46.3)	<0.001^#
ghp	39.4 (35.9; 42.9)	45.8 (42.0; 49.6)	43.7 (39.8; 47.6)	<0.009^#
vital	32.9 (28.9; 36.9)	41.2 (36.7; 45.7)	40.4 (35.7; 45.0)	<0.001^#
social	54.3 (47.7; 60.8)	62.0 (56.1; 67.9)	60.4 (54.5; 66.2)	<0.009*
rolem	42.9 (32.0; 53.7)	52.4 (41.8; 63.0)	43.8 (33.6; 54.0)	n. s.
mhi	52.2 (47.9; 56.5)	61.8 (58.0; 65.6)	56.3 (51.9; 60.7)	<0.05^#
rawhtran	3.31 (3.05; 3.58)	2.56 (2.31; 2.80)	2.71 (2.45; 2.97)	<0.001^#
pcs	30.9 (29.1; 32.7)	35.0 (33.0; 37.0)	34.8 (32.7; 37.0)	<0.001^#
mcs	40.5 (37.5; 43.4)	44.1 (41.5; 46.7)	41.7 (38.9; 44.4)	<0.02*

SES
Affective score	52.3 (50.0; 54.7)	45.5 (43.2; 47.7)	47.0 (44.4; 49.7)	<0.001^#
Sensory score	55.8 (53.2; 58.4)	51.0 (48.3; 53.7)	50.3 (47.8; 52.8)	<0.001^#

All of the data shown are mean (95% CI).
Significant difference between I1 and I2 and between I1 and I3 (the weaker value is given).
Significant difference between I1 and I2 only; n. s.: not significant .