Patient baseline characteristics will be summarized.
The baseline data will be summarized using descriptive statistics.
Demographic characteristics and baseline data will be summarized by descriptive statistics.
Baseline variables will be summarized separately for responders and non-responders.
Baseline data will be summarized as the number of observations, means, standard deviations, medians, minimums and maximums where the data are continuous and as number of observations and frequencies where the data are categorical.
Baseline characteristics will be summarized per group using the number of observations, mean, standard deviation, median, minimum and maximum for continuous measures and number of observations and frequency for categorical measures.
The following baseline characteristics will be summarized using descriptive statistics: number of patients, gender, age, affected side, duration of symptoms (months), prior ankle surgery, body mass index (kg/m), trauma, smoking, size of lesion (mm), classification, duration of PEMF- or sham-treatment (hours), AAS, NRS pain, FAOS, AOFAS-AHS, and EQ-5D.
Demographic and clinical characteristics, as well as baseline outcome measures will be summarized by descriptive statistics.
All baseline variables listed below will be summarized by treatment arm.
All baseline variables and outcomes will be summarized with descriptive tables and, in the case of repeated measures, plotted against time per treatment arm.
