Table 1.

Statistical analysis comparing the task completion times and total distance between the first and fourth trials

Task	1st trial time, mean (range) (sec)	4th trial time (mean, range) (sec)	P value	1st trial total distance (mean, range) (cm)	4th trial total distance (mean, range) (cm)	P value
Tonsil	97 (67–180)	36 (26–48)	< 0.001	11.5 (4.0–21.6)	5.5 (2.3–8.9)	0.002
Epiglottis	99 (36–187)	45 (27–62)	0.001	10.6 (6.2–26.1)	7.4 (5.1–11.3)	0.14
Vocal Process	185 (60–596)	65 (49–92)	0.01	29.0 (11.8–85.5)	12.6 (8.3–19.7)	0.04
Interarytenoid	95 (54–221)	58 (43–71)	0.02	13.6 (6.5–40.6)	11.2 (6.2–27.3)	0.33

In all tasks there was a statistically significant improvement in time and distance, except for the distance calculations for the epiglottis and interarytenoid tasks. Although not significant, there was still a numerical decrease in the means for these two tasks and a significantly shorter completion time

This still implies that there was an increase in velocity and efficiency for these tasks