Short-Term Efficacy of High-Intensity Laser Therapy in Alleviating Pain in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Single-Blind Randomised Controlled Trial
Table 1
Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of the participants.
Baseline characteristics
HILT (n = 21)
Control (n = 21)
value
Mean age (SD), years
66.1 (9.4)
65.0 (8.5)
0.668
BMI. mean (SD), kg/m2
28.1 (5.2)
27.4 (5.8)
0.676
Sex, number of patients (%)
Female
18 (85.7)
16 (76.2)
0.697
Male
3 (14.3)
5 (23.8)
KOA severity (KL classification),
0.559
Number of patients (%)
2
6 (28.6)
8 (38.1)
3
8 (38.1)
9 (42.9)
4
7 (33.3)
4 (19.0)
VAS, mean (SD)
7.02 (1.47)
6.54 (1.76)
0.349
T-WOMAC, mean (SD)
116.09 (35.92)
99.57 (31.04)
0.119
BMI, body mass index; HILT, high-intensity laser therapy; KL, Kellgren and Lawrence; T-WOMAC, the modified Thai version of Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index; VAS, visual analogue scale.