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From: Evaluation of the efficacy of manual soft tissue therapy and therapeutic exercises in patients with pain and limited mobility TMJ: a randomized control trial (RCT)

Fig. 4

Statistical analysis of the pain intensity in the treatment groups before (left side) and after (right side) therapy and the control group. Legend: NRS- Numeric Pain Rating Scale; MTM_TE – manual therapy (massage) and therapeutic exercises; MTPIR_TE – manual therapy (PIR) and therapeutic exercises; TE – therapeutic exercises; control – control group. symnum.args a list of arguments to pass to the function symnum for symbolic number coding of p-values. For example, symnum.args <—list(cutpoints = c(0, 0.0001, 0.001, 0.01, 0.05, 1), symbols = c(“****”, “***”, “**”, “*”, “ns”)). In other words, we use the following convention for symbols indicating statistical significance: ns: p > 0.05*: p <  = 0.05; **: p <  = 0.01; ***: p <  = 0.001; ****: p <  = 0.0001

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