Table 1.
Characteristics of the patients recruited to the study
| Sociodemographic characteristics | |
| Age | |
| mean ± SD | 37.0 ± 12.2 |
| range | 18–62 |
| n (%) | |
| Gender | |
| female | 27 (51.9) |
| male | 25 (48.1) |
| Birth country | |
| Israel | 45 (86.5) |
| Other | 7 (13.5) |
| SES | |
| 1–4 – low | 8 (15.4) |
| 5–7 – reference | 35 (67.3) |
| 8–10—high | 9 (17.3) |
| Marital status | |
| Single | 35 (67.3) |
| Married | 14 (26.9) |
| divorced | 3 (5.8) |
| Smoking status | |
| Smoker | 12 (23.1) |
| Non-smoker | 40 (76.9) |
| Dry Needling Procedure characteristics | |
| Physicians | |
| #1 (specialist) | 18 (34.6) |
| #2 (resident) | 34 (65.4) |
| Needles inserted | |
| Single | 40 (76.9) |
| multiple | 12 (23.1) |
| Initial VAS | |
| > 5 | 33 (63.5) |
| ≤ 5 | 19 (36.5) |