Table 2 Cervical and lumbar range of motion values in the experimental and control groups and p-values for the comparison of differences within and between groups
Experimental group | Control group | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Meana (SD) | Meanb (SD) | p | Mean (SD) | pc | pd | |
Cervical ROM | ||||||
Flexion | 42.3 (8.1) | 57.0 (7.0) | 0.000 | 50.5 (7.6) | 0.109 | 0.004 |
Extension | 49.5 (10.7) | 60.2 (9.2) | 0.002 | 58.4 (13.5) | 0.080 | 0.704 |
Lateral flexion (right) | 34.8 (4.5) | 40.8 (5.5) | 0.002 | 37.6 (6.2) | 0.133 | 0.203 |
Lateral flexion (left) | 35.5 (6.6) | 41.4 (7.8) | 0.012 | 39.9 (7.1) | 0.107 | 0.634 |
Rotation (right) | 75.7 (8.7) | 84.2 (6.4) | 0.002 | 83.2 7.3) | 0.323 | 0.731 |
Rotation (left) | 78.4 (8.8) | 85.8 (7.6) | 0.010 | 84.8 (6.1) | 0.354 | 0.766 |
Lumbar ROM | ||||||
Flexion | 62.2 (9.8) | 61.2 (7.2) | 0.698 | 60,0 (7.9) | 0.275 | 0.691 |
Extension | 22.4 (7.9) | 23.6 (5.9) | 0.528 | 28.2 (7.6) | 0.090 | 0.113 |
Lateral flexion (right) | 21.9 (4.7) | 27.4 (2.2) | 0.003 | 27.2 (7.4) | 0.045 | 0.925 |
Lateral flexion (left) | 24.5 (6.0) | 29.6 (3.6) | 0.009 | 27.6 (5.4) | 0.142 | 0.272 |