Table 1 Clinical Outcome Measure Scores shown as mean ± standard deviation, and change from baseline shown as mean with 95% confidence interval in brackets.

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Outcome measure

Baseline

6 weeks

12 weeks

24 weeks

p-value (baseline to 24 weeks)

Mean ± SD

N

Mean ± SD

Change^

N

Mean ± SD

Change^

N

Mean ± SD

Change^

MOXFQ walking

53 ± 23

10

40 ± 21

 − 13 (− 24, − 2)

10

23 ± 17

 − 30 (− 43, − 17)

9

25 ± 18

 − 27 (− 41, − 13)

0.002

MOXFQ pain

52 ± 11

10

40 ± 15

 − 12 (− 18, − 5)

10

29 ± 15

 − 23 (− 32, − 14)

9

25 ± 18

 − 28 (− 41, − 15)

0.001

MOXFQ social

43 ± 18

10

36 ± 19

 − 7 (− 14, 0)

10

26 ± 17

 − 18 (− 29, − 6)

9

24 ± 17

 − 17 (− 28, − 6)

0.006

EQ-5D-5L*

0.70 [0.70, 0.73]

9

0.74 [0.69, 0.79]

0.02 [0.00, 0.18]

9

0.77 [0.69, 0.82]

0.07 [0.00, 0.27]

8

0.77 [0.70, 0.96]

0.16 [0.00, 0.46]

0.03

EQ-VAS overall health

71 ± 14

9

77 ± 9

7 (0, 14)

9

80 ± 11

10 (2, 18)

7

82 ± 11

14 (8, 20)

0.001

VISA-A

41 ± 22

10

47 ± 21

7 (1, 13)

10

59 ± 16

19 (12, 26)

9

61 ± 21

24 (13, 34)

 < 0.001

VAS pain

43 ± 23

10

36 ± 21

 − 7 (− 20, 6)

10

26 ± 24

 − 17 (− 32, − 2)

9

22 ± 19

 − 24 (− 44, − 3)

0.03

SAS

5.0 ± 2.4

 

n/a

n/a

 

n/a

n/a

8

6.6 ± 1.8

1.6 (0.4, 2.9)

0.02

  1. n/a not applicable.
  2. ^Reported as mean change with 95% confidence intervals.
  3. *Reported as median [inter-quartile range] at each time point, with median change [95% CI].