BEMER Therapy Combined with Physiotherapy in Patients with Musculoskeletal Diseases: A Randomised, Controlled Double Blind Follow-Up Pilot Study

Table 1

Comparison of values before and after treatment of low back pain.

Dependent variable	Therapy	Descriptive statistics			values of ANCOVA
		Mean	Std. deviation
Resting VAS diff. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	26.84	13.68	19	0.0229
	Physio + placebo	15.00	15.23	21
Resting VAS rel. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	0.55	0.28	18	0.0620
	Physio + placebo	0.35	0.44	18
Exercise VAS val. diff. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	29.79	15.11	19	0.0547
	Physio + placebo	21.33	17.06	21
Exercise VAS val. rel. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	0.44	0.23	18	0.0179
	Physio + placebo	0.30	0.28	20
Oswestry diff. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	9.80	8.16	19	0.6872
	Physio + placebo	9.27	11.72	21
Oswestry rel. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	0.24	0.18	18	0.8190
	Physio + placebo	0.21	0.28	20
Fatigue GFI diff. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	12.40	9.53	9	0.0218
	Physio + placebo	6.71	9.22	9
Fatigue GFI rel. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	0.32	0.28	8	0.0153
	Physio + placebo	0.22	0.23	7
Physical functioning nbs diff. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−3.45	3.17	15	0.4952
	Physio + placebo	−3.15	6.95	14
Physical functioning nbs rel. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−0.10	0.10	14	0.5188
	Physio + placebo	−0.09	0.22	13
Role physical nbs diff. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−13.17	14.35	15	0.7722
	Physio + placebo	−8.42	14.84	16
Role physical nbs rel. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−0.49	0.63	14	0.8037
	Physio + placebo	−0.37	0.59	15
Bodily pain nbs diff. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−14.57	9.75	15	0.1431
	Physio + placebo	−7.68	8.05	19
Bodily pain nbs rel. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−0.44	0.36	14	0.2485
	Physio + placebo	−0.24	0.25	18
General Heath nbs diff. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−2.81	8.23	12	0.9361
	Physio + placebo	−2.74	6.06	17
General Heath nbs rel. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−0.09	0.27	11	0.9707
	Physio + placebo	−0.10	0.20	16
Vitality nbs diff. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−7.92	6.86	12	0.6338
	Physio + placebo	−5.01	5.05	16
Vitality nbs rel. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−0.20	0.20	11	0.6240
	Physio + placebo	−0.12	0.13	15
Social functioning nbs. diff. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−7.33	8.59	13	0.7860
	Physio + placebo	−4.75	9.37	19
Social functioning nbs. rel. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−0.23	0.28	13	0.8866
	Physio + placebo	−0.17	0.34	18
Role emotional nbs diff. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−12.93	17.67	14	0.3680
	Physio + placebo	−7.84	14.36	16
Role emotional nbs rel. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−0.62	1.07	13	0.4572
	Physio + placebo	−0.41	0.89	15
Mental health nbs diff. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−8.28	8.77	12	0.5300
	Physio + placebo	−6.05	8.85	16
Mental health nbs rel. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−0.22	0.28	11	0.9709
	Physio + placebo	−0.17	0.31	15
Physical component summary diff. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−4.99	4.45	7	0.1974
	Physio + placebo	−6.04	9.23	12
Physical component summary rel. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−0.14	0.13	7	0.1514
	Physio + placebo	−0.22	0.34	11
Mental component summary diff. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−7.82	11.09	7	0.6788
	Physio + placebo	−5.38	8.76	12
Mental component summary rel. Tests 1 and 2	Physio + BEMER	−0.26	0.42	7	0.6899
	Physio + placebo	−0.16	0.27	11