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Table 1 Mean hearing thresholds sham TENS cohort

From: An audiometric study of the effects of paraspinal stimulation on hearing acuity in human subjects understanding the Harvey Lillard phenomenon

 

Threshold - Mean (S.D.) decibels

Left Ear

Right Ear

Freq (Hz)

Sham TENS trial 1

Sham TENS trial 2

p value

Sham TENS trial 1

Sham TENS trial 2

p value

125

6.8 (3.8)

6.3 (3.7)

0.67

7.6 (3.9)

5.8 (1.9)

0.07

250

11.1 (4.6)

10.8 (3.4)

0.84

10 (0)

9.7 (1.1)

0.32

500

20.5 (5.2)

19.2 (4.5)

0.41

19.2 (3.4)

18.9 (2.7)

0.79

1000

16.8 (7.1)

16.3 (7.4)

0.82

14.7 (2.6)

15.3 (2.0)

0.49

2000

18.2 (3.8)

17.4 (3.9)

0.53

15.8 (3.0)

16.1 (2.1)

0.76

4000

19.5 (7.6)

17.1 (7.5)

0.34

18.7 (5.5)

17.6 (5.9)

0.57

8000

10.3 (8.1)

9.5 (8.5)

0.77

9.5 (8.2)

10.5 (8.2)

0.69

  1. Control cohort (i.e. 2 successive treatments of sham TENS); mean (S.D.) thresholds for the cohort at each frequency are expressed in decibels for the left and right ears.