Table 3.

Self-assessment of the SF-12 quality of life components before and after surgery and after rehabilitation.

SF-12	Mean Value (95% CI)			p*
	Before Surgery	After Surgery	After Rehabilitation
†Physical component summary (PCS)	32.5 (27.6–37.4)	42.7 (37.4–48.7)	51.9 (46.3–57.5)	<0.001
§Mental component summary (MCS)	38.8 (33.7–43.9)	40.9 (35.9–45.9)	50.9 (45.4 – 56.5)	0.002

Legend: *Repeated measures of analysis of variance, Post hoc Bonferroni; †on level of p < 0.05 significant differences between before and after surgery, before surgery vs. after rehabilitation; §on level of p < 0.05 significant differences between before surgery vs. after rehabilitation, after surgery vs. after rehabilitation.