Table 2.

Descriptive outcomes: temperature (°C).

	Baseline	1 min	2 min	3 min	4 min	5 min	5 min post-application
Superficial
HPC	20.64 ± 1.25	27.71 ± 1.35	31.35 ± 1.54	34.35 ± 1.54	36.25 ± 1.80	37.95 ± 2.86	28.25 ± 2.14
LPC	20.47 ± 1.20	24.02 ± 1.20	26.21 ± 3.01	26.25 ± 1.55	27.13 ± 1.74	27.92 ± 1.83	22.73 ± 1.24
HPR	20.70 ± 0.96	26.60 ± 1.72	28.90 ± 2.42	31.05 ± 2.46	32.98 ± 2.74	34.27 ± 2.63	31.59 ± 3.12
LPR	19.95 ± 1.36	21.91 ± 1.35	22.32 ± 1.40	23.61 ± 3.56	22.91 ± 1.23	23.39 ± 1.27	22.02 ± 1.56
Capsular
HPC	22.70 ± 1.55	24.73 ± 1.77	25.00 ± 1.88	25.46 ± 2.11	26.89 ± 2.27	26.29 ± 2.35	25.94 ± 1.89
LPC	22.67 ± 1.44	23.83 ± 1.38	24.14 ± 1.45	24.38 ± 1.41	24.55 ± 1.49	24.68 ± 1.54	24.77 ± 1.48
HPR	22.86 ± 1.38	28.12 ± 3.75	29.88 ± 4.18	31.35 ± 4.88	32.48 ± 5.28	34.22 ± 5.98	31.24 ± 4.00
LPR	22.79 ± 1.53	24.39 ± 1.81	24.87 ± 1.88	25.24 ± 2.00	25.54 ± 2.19	25.91 ± 2.26	25.47 ± 1.95
Intra-articular
HPC	21.23 ± 2.65	23.38 ± 2.42	23.80 ± 2.75	24.10 ± 2.93	24.40 ± 3.08	24.73 ± 3.17	22.50 ± 1.65
LPC	22.15 ± 2.14	21.33 ± 1.79	21.49 ± 1.77	21.56 ± 1.79	21.67 ± 1.82	21.72 ± 1.84	21.19 ± 1.50
HPR	21.00 ± 2.48	24.55 ± 3.34	25.69 ± 4.12	26.51 ± 4.73	27.16 ± 5.05	28.14 ± 5.63	24.55 ± 3.71
LPR	21.88 ± 1.94	21.83 ± 1.34	22.10 ± 1.43	22.28 ± 1.48	22.45 ± 1.61	22.62 ± 1.67	21.45 ± 1.58

HPC high-power capacitive, LPC low-power capacitive, HPR high-power resistive, LPR low-power resistive.