Comparative study between the effect of neural versus intra-articular dextrose prolotherapy on pain and disability in patients with knee osteoarthritis

Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation

Table 2 Comparison of VAS scores between neural prolotherapy and intra-articular prolotherapy

	Neural prolotherapy	Intra-articular prolotherapy	t test
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	T	P
At baseline	7.2 ± 1.0	7.1 ± 1.1	0.106	0.916
Immediate	2.9 ± 1.4	6.1 ± 1.2	11.048	< 0.001
At 3 months	3.0 ± 1.1	6.5 ± 1.4	11.344	< 0.001
At 6 months	3.6 ± 1.3	6.9 ± 1.3	10.889	< 0.001
Repeated measure ANOVA test
F	101.091	4.334
P	< 0.001	0.006