With a biomechanical treatment in knee osteoarthritis, less knee pain did not correlate with synovitis reduction

Table 1 Subject baseline characteristics - mean pain scores and DCE parameters of subjects in each group

	Controls (N = 63 randomised, 62 attended 6 week visit)			Brace group (N = 63 randomised, 58 attended 6 week visit)
Variable	N in analysis	Baseline ean (SD)	6 week visit mean (SD)	N in analysis	Baseline mean (SD)	6 week visit mean (SD)
VAS_NA	58^a	6.17 (2.20)	6.30 (2.14)	56^a	5.02 (2.55)	6.83 (2.13)
KOOS pain	61^a	53.03 (18.27)	51.32 (18.30)	57^a	57.72 (22.93)	48.94 (18.36)
K^trans	48	0.016 (0.018)	0.019 (0.018)	39	0.018 (0.018)	0.017 (0.014)
RER	48	0.034 (0.015)	0.039 (0.020)	39	0.038 (0.018)	0.035 (0.010)
RE_late	47^b	2.084 (0.846)	2.186 (0.870)	39	2.128 (0.874)	2.118 (0.634)
RE_max	48	2.474 (0.880)	2.635 (0.945)	39	2.569 (0.961)	2.523 (0.639)

^aNumber of observations for KOOS and VAS_NA are less than the number attending week 6 visit due to incomplete questionnaires
^bDynamic data model error prevented the use of one RE_late observation

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