Table 3.

Comparison of demographic and training characteristics between dancers with and without pain

Characteristics	Dancers with pain (n=30)	Dancers without pain (n=10)	P
Body mass index (kg/m2)	22.98±3.74	22.02±3.08	0.470
Dance exposure (hours of training per day)	2.15±1.31	1.55±0.98	0.194
Minimum age when dance training began (years)	6.35±2.33	7.1±2.37	0.386
Duration of dance training (years)	14.85±3.89	12.3±3.09	0.04
Average performances per year	8.98±5	5.07±3.62	0.028

*P value less than 0.01 is considered as statistically significant with an application of the Bonferroni correction to multiple independent t-tests