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.
| Parameters | Experimental group | Control group | Statistics | value | Effect size |
| Age | | | 1.16 | 0.249 | — | BMI | | | 2241 | 0.111 | — | Therapy duration | | | 2468 | 0.005 | 0.65C | Calcification size pretherapy | | | 1818 | 0.605 | — | Calcification size posttherapy | | | 851 | 8.52e-08 | 0.23C | VAS pretherapy | | | 1980 | 0.773 | — | VAS posttherapy | | | 1575 | 0.083 | — | Leg | | | | | | Right | 40 (64.5%) | 30 (48.4%) | 3.28 | 0.07 | — | Left | 22 (35.5%) | 32 (51.6%) | Sex | | | | | | Male | 29 (46.8%) | 32 (51.6%) | 0.29 | 0.59 | — | Female | 33 (53.2%) | 30 (48.4%) |
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dthe Cohen effect size; Cthe Cliff s effect size, Kthe Cramér’s V effect size.
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