Table 1.
The most frequently used descriptors chosen by the subjects to describe their sensations during laser acupuncture. Only descriptors that were chosen by at least five subjects are shown.
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Subjects |
Descriptors | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tingling | Radiating | Spreading | Hot | Dull | Pulsing | Throbbing | Pricking | Stinging | Tender | Pinching | |
| 1 | X | X | |||||||||
| 2 | X | X | X | X | |||||||
| 3 | X | X | X | ||||||||
| 4 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| 5 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| 6 | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||
| 7 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| 8 | X | X | |||||||||
| 9 | X | X | |||||||||
| 10 | X | ||||||||||
| 11 | X | X | |||||||||
| 12 | X | X | X | X | |||||||
| 13 | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||
| 14 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| 15 | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||
| 16 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| 17 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
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| Sum | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 |