Fig 1.
Four categories of measures (OUT, PHY, PSY, NRM) were collected at different times during (T0, T4, T8) and following (T34) the lumbar stabilization exercise program.
PHY and NRM measures are more burdensome and were consequently only collected at T0 and T8.
Fig 2.
Flow diagram.
Table 1.
Demographic, anthropometric and clinical characteristics of the participants.
Table 2.
Primary Outcome Measures (OUTs) for the 110 participants who completed the 8-week exercise program (A) as well as for the 100 participants who completed the six-month follow-up (B), also ranked by level of treatment success.
Fig 3.
Illustration and brief description (more detailed in S1 File) of the four clinical tests retained in the CPR of success at the end of treatment (at time T8).
Table 3.
Coefficients, indicators of diagnostic performance as well as explanatory and adjustment indicators of the selected predictive models for the CPR at T8 (A) and T34 (B).
Table 4.
Number of participants in the success and failure groups as a function of the number of positive tests of the CPR for success at T8 (A) and T34 (B).
Table 5.
Performance statistics (95% confidence intervals) associated with the numbers of predictors present in the CPR for success at T8 (A) and T34 (B).
Fig 4.
Illustration and brief description (more detailed in S1 File) of the three clinical tests retained in the CPR of success at the six-month follow-up (at time T34).
Table 6.
Comparison of the performance of different CPRs of success developed for different treatments offered in physiotherapy.