Table 4.

Average values of pain levels in different periods with or without previous acupuncture (acup.) treatment in female and male volunteers. Data expressed as mean ± standard deviation.

	Before	After	4 h	8 h	24 h	48 h	72 h
No acup. (female)	1.77 ± 1.68	4.21 ± 2.69	4.36 ± 2.39	4.63 ± 1.84	4.3 ± 2.22	4.31 ± 1.88	2.43 ± 1.90
Acup. (female)	*0.02 ± 0.03	2.92 ± 2.34	3.34 ± 2.11	2.50 ± 2.49	2.90 ± 2.64	2.20 ± 1.94	1.64 ± 2.03
No acup. (male)	0.4 ± 0.62	3.32 ± 1.77	3.83 ± 1.67	3.3 ± 1.64	3.63 ± 1.96	2.22 ± 1.52	1.6 ± 2.38
Acup. (male)	0.18 ± 0.29	1.59 ± 2.10	2.08 ± 2.17	*0.93 ± 0.39	2.03 ± 0.88	1.18 ± 2.39	0.95 ± 1.54

^*p < 0.05.