Research Article

The Efficacy of Focused Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy and Ultrasound Therapy in the Treatment of Calcar Calcanei: A Randomized Study

Table 2

The comparisons of outcomes with descriptive statistics ( deviation), test statistics, p values and effects size.

ParametersExperimental groupControl groupStatistics valueEffect size

Age1.160.249
BMI22410.111
Therapy duration24680.0050.65C
Calcification size pretherapy18180.605
Calcification size posttherapy8518.52e-080.23C
VAS pretherapy19800.773
VAS posttherapy15750.083
Leg
 Right40 (64.5%)30 (48.4%)3.280.07
 Left22 (35.5%)32 (51.6%)
Sex
 Male29 (46.8%)32 (51.6%)0.290.59
 Female33 (53.2%)30 (48.4%)

dthe Cohen effect size; Cthe Cliff s effect size, Kthe Cramér’s V effect size.