Table 5.
Exploring pain, ODI, and work status in patients with grade 0 versus grade 1–2 multifidus muscle fat in patients included in the predictor analysisa
| Rehabilitation | Surgery | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 0 fat at pre-treatment (n = 31) | Fat grad 1-2 at pre-treatment (n = 33) | p-value | Grade 0 fat at pre-treatment (n = 36) | Fat grade 1-2 at pre-treatment (n = 47) | p-value | |
| Pain baseline (mean (SD)) | 75.1 (11.7) | 70.8 (14.2) | 0.19* | 70.5 (15.6) | 65.5 (15.8) | 0.16* |
| Pain 2 year (mean (SD)) | 50.4 (28.9) | 42.8 (26.5) | 0.29* | 25.9 (28.2) | 33.3 (27.1) | 0.24* |
| ODI baseline (mean (SD)) | 42.8 (8.6) | 41.8 (8.0) | 0.65* | 40.0 (8.0) | 44.1 (10.6) | 0.05* |
| ODI 2 year (mean (SD)) | 28.9 (15.1) | 25.5 (12.3) | 0.33* | 15.0 (17.1) | 22.4 (14.6) | 0.04* |
| Work status baseline (n / % working) | 4 (12.9) | 7 (21.2) | 0.51# | 12 (33.3) | 8 (17.4) | 0.12# |
| Work status 2 year (n / % working) | 15 (48.4) | 11 (33.3) | 0.11# | 24 (72.7) | 22 (46.8) | 0.04# |
ODI Oswestry Disability Index
*Independent-samples t-test
#Chi-Square Test (Continuity Correction)
a n = 144 for pain, n = 147 for ODI, n = 137 for work status