Table 3.

Direct comparison between normal skin and fibrotic scars for all studied parameters

	Curve 1 (mean ± SD)	Curve 2 (mean ± SD)	Curve 3 (mean ± SD)	Curve 4 (mean ± SD)	All curves (mean ± SD)	p-value
R0 (Skin pliability)
NS	1.384 ± 0.194	1.247 ± 0.193	1.248 ± 0.202	1.253 ± 0.198	1.258 ± 0.018	0.001
FS	1.087 ± 0.253	0.913 ± 0.318	0.952 ± 0.349	0.985 ± 0.352	0.959 ± 0.352
R2 (Gross elasticity)
NS	0.878 ± 0.037	0.917 ± 0.019	0.915 ± 0.024	0.917 ± 0.020	0.907 ± 0.019	0.081
FS	0.923 ± 0.084	0.834 ± 0.031	0.836 ± 0.020	0.824 ± 0.024	0.854 ± 0.054
R5 (Net elasticity)
NS	0.910 ± 0.175	0.956 ± 0.140	0.930 ± 0.106	0.916 ± 0.100	0.928 ± 0.020	0.012
FS	0.903 ± 0.070	0.876 ± 0.061	0.874 ± 0.065	0.865 ± 0.061	0.880 ± 0.030
R6 (Portion of viscoelasticity)
NS	0.311 ± 0.065	0.176 ± 0.045	0.165 ± 0.049	0.155 ± 0.043	0.202 ± 0.073	0.368
FS	0.392 ± 0.057	0.244 ± 0.058	0.212 ± 0.052	0.188 ± 0.059	0.259 ± 0.092
R7 (Immediate recovery)
NS	0.711 ± 0.057	0.751 ± 0.056	0.754 ± 0.062	0.747 ± 0.060	0.741 ± 0.020	0.904
FS	0.659 ± 0.152	0.772 ± 0.132	0.772 ± 0.111	0.775 ± 0.112	0.744 ± 0.057
Q1 (Total recovery)
NS	0.870 ± 0.028	0.915 ± 0.020	0.917 ± 0.019	0.914 ± 0.020	0.904 ± 0.022	0.033
FS	0.792 ± 0.096	0.805 ± 0.045	0.810 ± 0.034	0.904 ± 0.038	0.848 ± 0.057
Q2 (Elastic recovery)
NS	0.731 ± 0.051	0.771 ± 0.049	0.774 ± 0.053	0.765 ± 0.049	0.761 ± 0.020	0.742
FS	0.667 ± 0.138	0.778 ± 0.116	0.777 ± 0.097	0.779 ± 0.098	0.750 ± 0.056
Q3 (Viscoelastic recovery)
NS	0.139 ± 0.032	0.144 ± 0.033	0.143 ± 0.035	0.149 ± 0.033	0.144 ± 0.004	0.001
FS	0.126 ± 0.044	0.127 ± 0.071	0.133 ± 0.064	0.124 ± 0.062	0.127 ± 0.004