Role of Auriculotherapy in the Treatment of Temporomandibular Disorders with Anxiety in University Students

Table 4

Results of the intragroup and intergroup analysis of the EMG activity of the AA group and sham AA group.

Muscles	AA ()				Sham AA ()				Intergroup
	Before	After			Before	After			Before; ()	After; ()
	(95% CI)				(95% CI)
Bilateral trapezius rest
R	3.33	3.34	0.43	0.06	3.21	3.21	1.00	0.00	0.267	<0.01^#
	3.27–3.39	3.28–3.41			3.00–3.42	3.04–3.38
L	3.64	3.66	0.12	0.08	3.49	3.50	0.46	0.19	0.899
	3.55–3.73	3.56–3.75			3.19–3.79	3.25–3.75
Bilateral masseter rest
R	3.35	3.66	0.23	0.18	3.24	3.23	0.14	0.03	0.750	0.07
	3.29–3.42	2.99–4.33			3.02–3.46	3.06–3.39
L	3.63	3.65	0.42	0.09	3.49	3.51	0.91	0.05	0.466	0.15
	3.55–3.72	3.56–3.73			3.11–3.53	3.27–3.75
Bilateral temporalis rest
R	3.41	3.40	0.23	0.07	3.32	3.29	0.05	0.08	0.841	0.21
	3.35–3.47	3.37–3.43			3.11–3.53	3.14–3.45
L	3.58	3.55	0.12	0.14	3.44	3.43	0.11	0.02	0.236
	3.51–3.66	3.47–3.62			3.21–3.67	3.24–3.61
Bilateral trapezius contraction
R	3.23	3.23	0.51	0.00	3.12	3.11	0.23	0.03	0.216	<0.01^#
	3.18–3.29	3.18–3.29			2.93–3.32	3.00–3.23
L	3.55	3.55	0.47	0.00	3.41	3.38	0.06	0.06	0.548	<0.01^#
	3.48–3.62	3.49–3.62			3.14–3.69	3.17–3.59
Unilateral trapezius contraction
R	3.26	3.24	0.71	0.10	3.16	3.11	0.26	0.12	0.636	<0.01^#
	3.18–3.33	3.17–3.31			2.91–3.41	2.98–3.24
L	3.53	3.54	0.56	0.04	3.345	3.39	0.78	0.13	0.063	<0.01^#
	3.45–3.62	3.46–3.62			2.70–5.36	3.21–3.58
Bilateral masseter contraction
R	3.23	3.20	0.09	0.25	3.15	3.10	0.09	0.19	0.675	0.23
	3.18–3.27	3.16–3.24			2.99–3.30	2.99–3.21
L	3.51	3.51	0.29	0.00	3.39	3.39	0.50	0.00	0.455	0.88
	3.43–3.59	3.44–3.58			3.15–3.62	3.19–3.59
Temporal bilateral contraction
R	3.30	3.29	0.40	0.07	3.21	3.18	0.17	0.09	0.362	<0.01^#
	3.25–3.36	3.24–3.34			3.01–3.41	3.05–3.31
L	3.48	3.46	0.03	0.10	3.35	3.34	0.14	0.03	0.209
	3.41–3.56	3.39–3.52			3.13–3.56	3.17–3.50

R: right; L: left; : effect size; Wilcoxon test; ^#Mann-Whitney test.