Electrical interferential current stimulation versus electrical acupuncture in management of hemiplegic shoulder pain and disability following ischemic stroke-a randomized clinical trial

Table 2 SPADI ^a score and its subscales before and after intervention and their changes in n each group

Variable	IFC ^b group (n = 20)	Acupuncture group (n = 20)	P-value
Total SPADI score
Before	99.00 ± 5.69	112.30 ± 3.42	0.052 †
After	79.65 ± 5.45	94.50 ± 4.09	0.018 †
Pain subgroup
Before	25.70 ± 3.46	33.45 ± 3.22	0.110 †
After	17.80 ± 2.80	21.45 ± 3.57	0.426 †
Functional subgroup
Before	73.30 ± 3.86	78.85 ± 1.55	0.190 †
After	61.85 ± 4.20	73.05 ± 2.53	0.028 †
Mean SPADI score change	19.35 ± 1.79	17.80 ± 2.08	0.576 ‡
Percent of SPADI score change	20.46 ± 2.37	16.22 ± 2.04	0.576 ‡
Mean pain subgroup change	7.90 ± 1.46	12.00 ± 1.46	0.055 ‡
Percent of pain subgroup change	33.99 ± 4.26	46.53 ± 7.20	0.055 ‡
Mean functional subgroup change	11.45 ± 1.88	5.80 ± 1.66	0.030 ‡
Percent of functional subgroup change	16.62 ± 2.93	7.58 ± 2.16	0.030 ‡

^aSPADI shoulder pain and disability index, ^bIFC interferential current stimulation
All values are mean ± SD
†The results from Mixed Anova test
‡The results from independent samples t-test

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