A New Rehabilitation Tool in Fibromyalgia: The Effects of Perceptive Rehabilitation on Pain and Function in a Clinical Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 1

Group comparisons at baseline. Mean and standard deviations are reported. values were computed using analysis of variance for continuous measures and Kruskal-Wallis analysis for VAS scores.

Baseline parameter	PS-group	PE-group	CG	value
Age [years]	49.3 ± 11.1	50.4 ± 8.6	51.3 ± 9.0	0.814
Height [m]	1.61 ± 0.06	1.62 ± 0.08	1.67 ± 0.08	0.055
Weight [kg]	66.4 ± 18.8	64.6 ± 9.2	68.6 ± 14.9	0.715
Body mass index [kg/m^2]	25.5 ± 6.3	24.7 ± 3.7	23.8 ± 5.0	0.615
VAS	7.7 ± 1.3	6.9 ± 1.7	7.2 ± 1.8	0.482
Duration of FM [years]	6.23 ± 3.55	5.00 ± 1.04	5.12 ± 2.64	0.358

VAS: visual analog scale, SG: perceptive rehabilitation group, TG: rehabilitation group, and CG: control group.