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. 2023 Mar 21;15(3):e36473. doi: 10.7759/cureus.36473

Table 1. Intergroup and intragroup comparison of VAS.

VAS: Visual analog scale; DN: Dry needling; TENS: Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation; SD: standard deviation. P<0.05 is significant.

VAS DN TENS Mann-Whitney U Test
Mean SD Mean SD z-value p-value
Pre-Procedure 8.32 .48 8.20 .41 -0.958 0.338
14th day 4.12 1.51 6.56 .51 -5.447 <0.001
28th day 1.68 1.86 4.20 .50 -4.397 <0.001