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

Table 4

Influence of TCM pattern on WOMAC score improvement rate from baseline using multivariate regression analysis controlling confounding.

	Pain/TCM			Stiffness/TCM			Function/TCM
	Coefficient	SE	𝑃	Coefficient	SE	𝑃	Coefficient	SE	𝑃
1st treatment	−0.134	0.169	0.432	0.115	0.791	0.885	−0.296	0.17	0.089
wk 2	−0.131	0.102	0.205	−0.28	0.401	0.488	−0.27	0.118	0.027*
wk 6	−0.257	0.132	0.057	−0.171	0.216	0.432	−0.293	0.111	0.012*
wk 10	−0.15	0.139	0.288	−0.408	0.260	0.123	−0.265	0.108	0.019*

^∗𝑃<0.05 indicates a positive correlation between the yang deficiency cold coagulation pattern and treatment effect.