Relieving Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain in Older Adults Using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: Effects on Pain Intensity, Quality, and Pain-Related Outcomes.

Front Pain Res (Lausanne) · 2022 · PMC9069524 · PMID 35529592

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just failed to reach statistical significancep = 0.05actually significant

For daily maximal pain scores ( Figure 2B ), they also tended to decrease in the active tDCS group, but results just failed to reach statistical significance ( p = 0.05).

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showed a trendp = 0.08so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Between-group comparisons for change in pain intensity reduction between active and sham tDCS showed a trend during treatment ( p = 0.08) which was significant at the follow-up period ( p = 0.02).

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