Data storage and analysis
pain
DISEASE
All patients’ data were coded and stored on the electronic data capture system for a specific disease. The system was operated within the hospital’s local servers. All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS Statistics version 24.0 (IBM Corp, Chicago, IL, USA). Data are presented as mean ± SD with 95% confidence intervals unless stated otherwise. Intergroup differences in patients’ baseline characteristics were assessed using independent-sample t-tests for continuous dependent variables and Fisher’s exact test for categorical data. The Shapiro-Wilks test (p>0.05) was used to examine normally distributed data, while Levene’s test of homogeneity was used to examine the homogeneity of the variances. The analysis of variance test was used to assess pain, 10RM strength, self-reported function, and 30s-CST with group allocations as the inter-subject independent factor and time as the intra-subject dependent factor.