Patterns of Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis in Thermal Laser Acupuncture Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis

Table 2

WOMAC score changes from baseline (Group A and Group B combined, 𝑛=51).

	Pain	Stiffness	Function
	95% CI	95% CI	95% CI
First treatment	−4.98 [−9.38,−0.58]^∗	−4.27 [−9.34,0.79]	−2.12 [−5.63,1.39]
wk 2	−14.57 [−19.45,−9.70]^∗∗	−15.79 [−22.77,−8.82]^∗∗	−9.65 [−14.17,−5.12]^∗∗
wk 6	−15.29 [−20.63,−9.94]^∗∗	−17.76 [−24.04,−11.48]^∗∗	−11.75 [−16.61,−6.89]^∗∗
wk 10	−17.63 [−23.01,−12.25]^∗∗	−19.48 [−25.88,−13.08]^∗∗	−13.60 [−18.38,−8.81]^∗∗

^∗𝑃 value < 0.05 compared to baseline.
^∗∗𝑃 value < 0.001 compared to baseline.