Table 2. Visual Analog Scale and Neck Disability Index scores at baseline, after the treatment (Day 14), and at one month.
| Baseline (T0) | 14th day (T1) | 30th day (T2) | p (within groups) | Post Hoc test | |||||||
| Mean±SD | Median | Min-Max | Mean±SD | Median | Min-Max | Mean±SD | Median | Min-Max | |||
| Visual Analog Scale (0-10cm) | |||||||||||
| Kinesiotaping | 5 | 4-8 | 2 | 0-8 | 2 | 0-8 | <0.001† | T1<T0, T2<T0 | |||
| Sham | 4 | 4-8 | 3 | 0-8 | 1 | 0-10 | 0.836† | ||||
| p (between groups) | 0.441* | 0.965* | 0.670* | ||||||||
| Neck Disability Index (0-50) | |||||||||||
| Kinesiotaping | 32.6±13.1 | 28.2±16.0 | 29.1±15.8 | <0.001‡ | T1<T0, T2<T0 | ||||||
| Sham | 35.7±14.0 | 27.6±11.2 | 31.5±14.2 | 0.006‡ | T1<T0, T2<T0 | ||||||
| p (between groups) | 0.459** | 0.899** | 0.643** | ||||||||
| SD: Standard deviation; Min-Minimum; Max: Maximum; * Mann-Whitney U test; ** Independent samples t-test; † Friedman t-test; ‡ Repeated measures of ANOVA. | |||||||||||