Low-Intensity Electrical Stimulation to Improve the Neurological Aspect of Weakness in Individuals with Chronic Anterior Cruciate Ligament Lesion

Table 2

The mean, standard deviation, and results of ANOVA of the maximal short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI), intracortical facilitation (ICF), and wave on vastus medialis obliques (VMO), vastus lateralis (VL), and rectus femoris (RF) muscles before and after 30 minutes of electrical stimulation (ES) training in different groups. The main effect is not shown if the interaction is significant ().

	Pre-ES		Post-ES		2-way ANOVA ()
	ACL lesion	Health control	ACL lesion	Healthy control	Interaction	Main effect time	Main effect group
Maximal SICI (%)
VMO					<0.001	—	—
VL					0.015	—	—
RF					0.446	0.012	0.088
Maximal ICF (%)
VMO					0.001	—	—
VL					0.048	—	—
RF					0.731	0.001	0.426
wave (mv)
VMO					0.237	0.114	0.225
VL					0.545	0.010	0.642
RF					0.569	0.935	0.261

Significant main effect (). Significant interaction () between time and group.