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The Short Form-36 (SF-36) bodily pain treatment effects. The data points represent the differences in the change of bodily pain scores between the operative and nonoperative groups at each follow-up time period (that is, the improvement in the operative group minus the improvement in the nonoperative group). The vertical bars represent the 95% confidence intervals.
