Effect of chiropractic manipulative therapy on reaction time in special operations forces military personnel: a randomized controlled trial

Table 3 Immediate changes in pre- and post-reaction and response time (visit 2)

	CMT	Wait-list control	Mean between group difference (95% CI)	P value
Hand simple reaction time (ms)**	−1.13 (48.16)	14.25 (37.75)	−15.92 (−35.35 to 3.51)	0.11
Foot simple reaction time (ms)**	1.52 (38.10)	−2.47 (37.23)	4.20 (−12.81 to 21.21)	0.62
Choice reaction time (ms)***	−13.03 45.12)	−13.49 (36.32)	0.23 (−14.59 to 15.06)	0.98
Fitts Law test response time (s) ***	−0.86 (2.46)	−1.40 (2.77)	0.54 (−0.41 to 1.49)	0.27
t-wall® test response time (s)***	−0.30 (2.25)	0.59 (2.20)	−0.90 (−1.71 to −0.09)	0.03

Values are shown as mean (standard deviation) based on analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) model, adjusted for age
CI confidence interval, CMT chiropractic manipulative therapy
**n = 39 in CMT and n = 40 in wait-list control
***n = 60 in CMT and n = 60 in wait-list control

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