Table 1. Demographic characteristics of Experimental and Control group.

	Experimental group (n = 8)	Control group (n = 6)	P value
Gender(male/female)	5/3	3/3	>0.99
Mean age(years)	58.50 (2.24)	61.33 (3.43)	0.49
Duration(months)	4 (0.73)	5 (1.16)	0.6
NRS baseline	4.13 (0.55)	5.00 (0.52)	0.28
Training runs	2.38 (0.26)	2.50 (0.34)	0.77

Numbers in parentheses indicate standard error of the mean (SEM). P values refer to Fisher's exact test for proportion of females and two-sample t tests for other characteristics.

Abbreviations: NRS, numerical rating scale.