Research Article

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

Table 3

The ‘pre-post’ analysis of VAS and calcification.

GroupParametersPretherapyPosttherapyStatistics valueEffect size

ExperimentalCalcification1891<0.00010.79rs
VAS1953<0.00010.89rs
ControlCalcification1102<0.00010.48rs
VAS1891<0.00010.80rs

dthe Cohen effect size: rsthe rank biserial correlation coefficient.