Manual therapy versus therapeutic exercise in non-specific chronic neck pain: a randomized controlled trial

Table 3 Intergroup analysis. Statistical significance between groups

Variable	P Week 1	Post-hoc	P	P Week 4	Post-hoc	P	P Week 12	Post-hoc	P
VAS	0.067^a	MT–C	0.329^c	0.001*^a	MT–C	0.001*^c	0.003*^a	MT–C	0.008*^c
		TE–C	0.070^c		TE–C	0.001*^c		TE–C	0.007*^c
		MT–TE	1.000^c		MT–TE	1.000^c		MT–TE	1.000^c
NDI	0.001*^b	MT–C	0.001*^d	0.001*^b	MT–C	0.001*^d	0.001*^a	MT–C	0.001*^c
		TE–C	0.001*^d		TE–C	0.001*^d		TE–C	0.001*^c
		MT–TE	0.031*^d		MT–TE	0.356^d		MT–TE	1.000^c
PPT	0.853^b	MT–C	0.743^d	0.002*^a	MT–C	0.001*^c	0.001*^b	MT–C	0.012*^d
		TE–C	0.991^d		TE–C	0.415^c		TE–C	0.001*^d
		MT–TE	0.532^d		MT–TE	0.072^c		MT–TE	0.674^d

C control group, MT manual therapy group, TE therapeutic exercise group, P statistical significance
^aANOVA
^bKruskal-Wallis H
^cBonferroni
^dMann-Whitney U
*Statistically significant differences between groups (P < 0.05)

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