Table 3.
characteristics of intervertebral discs
| index | Variable | area | Group |
stage
|
Intragroup changes
|
Intergroup changes
|
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Pre- test
M±SD |
Post -test
M±SD |
t | P | F | P | ||||
| Structural characteristic of intervertebral disc | Height | l4-l5 | Combined | 9.9±0.7 | 10±0.8 | -0.55 | 0.593 | 1.00 | 0.327 |
| core stability | 10.2±0.6 | 10.2±0.5 | -0.56 | 0.583 | |||||
| l5-s1 | Combined | 9.2±1.3 | 9±1.3 | -0.48 | 0.640 | 0.63 | 0.434 | ||
| core stability | 9.4±1.3 | 9.8±1.1 | -1.95 | 0.074 | |||||
| herniation index | l4-l5 | combined | 322.5±276.3 | 320.7±273.4 | 0.61 | 0.556 | 0.04 | 0.835 | |
| core stability | 351.9±224.0 | 332.9±219.7 | 0.83 | 0.425 | |||||
| l5-s1 | combined | 301.7±212.1 | 293.5±205.1 | 1.57 | 0.144 | 0.58 | 0.456 | ||
| core stability | 377.1±220.6 | 345.6±211.0 | 1.29 | 0.220 | |||||