Table 5.
Overall opinions of change and number of responders evaluated at week 4.
| Treatment groups | |||||
| Parameter | Placebo (n = 45) | Diclofenac (n = 49) | EA (n = 46) | Combined (n = 46) | p-value |
| Orthopedist's overall opinion* | 0.01† | ||||
| Much better | 6 | 18 | 21 | 16 | |
| Better | 22 | 21 | 20 | 23 | |
| Same | 16 | 10 | 5 | 7 | |
| Worse | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Patient's overall opinion* | 0.09† | ||||
| Much better | 19 | 25 | 31 | 22 | |
| Better | 16 | 17 | 11 | 23 | |
| Same | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | |
| Worse | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Number of responders | 13 | 18 | 27 | 24 | 0.02†† |
*Data represent number of patients, † = chi-square test evaluated on the proportions of patients with the opinion of "much better", †† = chi-square test.