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

Table 2

Comparison of values before and 3 months after treatment of low back pain.

Dependent variable	Therapy	Descriptive statistics			values of ANCOVA
		Mean	Std. deviation
Resting VAS diff. Tests 1 and 3	Physio + BEMER	15.94	22.98	18	0.7766
	Physio + placebo	8.74	17.38	19
Exercise VAS val. diff. Tests 1 and 3	Physio + BEMER	15.44	22.67	18	0.6571
	Physio + placebo	11.26	20.90	19
Oswestry diff. Tests 1 and 3	Physio + BEMER	5.87	9.91	18	0.9773
	Physio + placebo	4.68	14.74	18
Fatigue GFI diff. Tests 1 and 3	Physio + BEMER	5.04	9.84	13	0.5316
	Physio + placebo	2.80	7.96	12
Physical functioning nbs diff. Tests 1 and 3	Physio + BEMER	−1.18	5.66	13	0.4034
	Physio + placebo	−1.03	4.11	13
Role physical nbs diff. Tests 1 and 3	Physio + BEMER	−4.49	11.55	14	0.4105
	Physio + placebo	0.64	10.25	14
Bodily pain nbs diff. Tests 1 and 3	Physio + BEMER	−6.45	6.28	15	0.1099
	Physio + placebo	−2.44	7.93	18
General heath nbs diff. Tests 1 and 3	Physio + BEMER	−3.57	4.24	12	0.9441
	Physio + placebo	−2.17	5.57	14
Vitality nbs diff. Tests 1 and 3	Physio + BEMER	−5.35	6.54	10	0.7085
	Physio + placebo	0.25	6.64	12
Social functioning nbs. diff. Tests 1 and 3	Physio + BEMER	−1.54	10.11	13	0.6081
	Physio + placebo	−0.56	10.30	18
Role emotional nbs diff. Tests 1 and 3	Physio + BEMER	−5.36	19.31	13	0.2712
	Physio + placebo	−1.86	14.76	15
Mental health nbs diff. Tests 1 and 3	Physio + BEMER	−4.36	7.28	9	0.9854
	Physio + placebo	−3.84	7.84	15
Physical component summary diff. Tests 1 and 3	Physio + BEMER	−2.99	5.57	6	0.9299
	Physio + placebo	−2.06	5.05	10
Mental component summary diff. Tests 1 and 3	Physio + BEMER	−9.97	2.68	6	0.4874
	Physio + placebo	−1.31	10.13	10