Table 5.

Distribution of chronic inflammatory diseases with presence of pain. The placebo study participants were Caucasian men and women aged between 30 and 86 years. The number of subjects involved was 950, comprising 500 males and 450 females, with an average age of 50 years. In all the subjects, pain was a major feature of their lives. The placebo group had the same procedure as the treated group. The only variant was that the device-patient connection cable was internally silenced, so as to keep all the other variables exactly the same

	M	F
Rheumatoid arthritis	200	191
Osteoarthritis	75	88
Cervical pain	24	25
Fibromyalgia	45	53
Low back pain	24	21
Chronic recurrent headaches	87	48
Chronic nonspecific pains	45	24
Total	500	450