Table 2.

Baseline Pain and Physical Activity Between Two Groups.

Ulcer Type	Venous Leg Ulcer		Diabetic Foot Ulcer
Characteristic	Placebo (n = 40)	Cooling (n = 42)	Placebo (n = 29)	Cooling (n = 29)
Brief Pain Inventory
Discomfort or pain from healed ulcer over past month (yes n, %)	16 (38.1)	20 (48.8)	7 (24.1)	11 (37.9)
Worst amount of pain from healed ulcer in last 24 hours (0 = none – 10 = worst possible), (M ± SD)	1.1 ± 2.6	1.4 ± 2.6	0.6 ± 1.6	1.5 ± 2.8
Least amount of pain from healed ulcer in last 24 hours (0 = none – 10 = worst possible, M ± SD)	0.3 ± 1.1	0.5 ± 1.3	0.2 ± 0.8	0.8 ± 1.9
Pain right now (0 = none - 10 = worst possible, M ± SD)	0.3 ± 0.9	0.5 ± 1.4	0.3 ± 1.1	0.8 ± 1.9
Taking medications or receiving treatments for pain from healed ulcer (yes n, %)	3 (7.7)	0	0	2 (7.1)
Pain Severity composite score (M ± SD)	0.6 ± 1.5	0.8 ± 1.7	0.3 ± 1.1	1.0 ± 2.1
Pain Interference composite score (M ± SD)	0.7 ± 1.9	0.7 ± 1.6	0.3 ± 1.2	0.8 ± 1.8
International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ)*
Total activity (min/week) – truncated (median, [25th;75th quartile]	195 [35 – 380]	180 [120 – 360]	158 [93 – 315]	60 [20 – 290]
Walk MET minutes per week (median, [25th;75th quartile]	1386 [792 – 3168]	1980 [792 – 4752]	1114 [990 – 2970]	1650 [116 – 3564]
Moderate MET minutes per week (median, [25th;75th quartile]	1920 [240 – 6720]	3840 [1680 – 5280]	1000 [480 – 3000]	300 [180 – 1620]
Vigorous MET minutes per week (median, [25th;75th quartile]	960 [480 – 2880]	8640 [3600 – 12480]	1080 [360 – 1200]	320 [160 – 480]
Total MET minutes per week (median, [25th;75th quartile]	2514 [480 – 8160]	2544 [1188 – 10512]	2735 [1389 – 5460]	699 [240 – 4480]
Physical Activity Category (IPAQ) (n, %)
Inactive	20 (72.5)	34 (81.0)	22 (75.9)	26 (89.7)
Minimally active	4 (10.0)	2 (4.8)	3 (10.3)	1 (3.5)
Health-enhancing physically active	7 (17.5)	6 (14.3)	4 (13.8)	2 (6.9)

^*Values for all continuous IPAQ scores expressed as median, [25^th;75^th quartile] as per scoring instructions (www.ipaq.ki.se)