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. 2019 Mar;54(3):255–269. doi: 10.4085/1062-6050-490-17

Table 4.

Prerehabilitation and Postrehabilitation Self-Reported Subjective Function and Cohen d Effect Sizes With 95% CIs

Patient-Reported Outcome Measure
Group, Mean ± SD
P Value
Pooled Prerehabilitation- Postrehabilitation Cohen d Effect Size (95% CI)a
Patterned Electrical Neuromuscular Stimulation
Sham
Prerehabilitation
Postrehabilitation
Prerehabilitation
Postrehabilitation
Time Main Effect
Group Main Effect
Group × Time Interaction
Visual analog scale-current pain in the last week score 0.8 ± 0.8 0.5 ± 0.6 1.8 ± 2.0 0.7 ± 0.6 .03b .16 .14 −0.58 (−1.21, 0.04)
Visual analog scale-worst pain in the last week score 4.2 ± 1.1 1.9 ± 2.0 5.6 ± 1.2 2.2 ± 1.2 <.001b .09 .39 1.92 (1.17, 2.67)
Anterior Knee Pain Scale score 80.4 ± 5.0 87.2 ± 9.7 73.1 ± 7.9 87.0 ± 5.6 <.001b .20 .05 1.40 (0.74, 2.11,)
Activities of Daily Living Scale score 79.1 ± 8.5 88.6 ± 5.9 79.6 ± 12.0 87.3 ± 5.2 .002b .80 .81 1.07 (0.42, 1.73)
Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire-Knee score 12.4 ± 5.3 8.6 ± 5.2 14.4 ± 3.6 11.4 ± 3.8 .005b .19 .71 −0.73 (−1.36, −0.09)
Lower Extremity Functional Scale score 67.0 ± 5.9 72.7 ± 4.9 64.2 ± 10.7 73.5 ± 4.6 <.001b .71 .28 1.09 (0.43, 1.75)
Global rating of change score 4.6 ± 1.8 4.2 ± 1.8 .63

Abbreviation: CI, confidence interval.

a

Effect sizes were calculated to compare the pooled group's prerehabilitation and postrehabilitation scores; a positive value denotes an increase in subjective function postrehabilitation.

b

Indicates difference (P ≤ .05).