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Table 1 Comparison results for cutaneous temperature and blood flow of Recovery stage to Baseline stage in two tests

From: Effect of different thermal stimuli on improving microcirculation in the contralateral foot

 

Warm bath

Infrared radiation

p value

95% confidence interval of the difference

Effect size

p value

95% confidence interval of the difference

Effect size

Recovery stage

 Temperature

  Instant(0–10 s)

0.002

− 3.27 ~ − 0.69

0.87

0.004

− 1.99 ~ − 0.19

0.69

  1 min

0.002

− 3.29 ~ − 0.58

0.81

0.010

− 1.9 ~ − 0.14

0.66

  2 min

0.002

− 3.26 ~ − 0.53

0.78

0.004

− 1.92 ~ − 0.19

0.69

  3 min

0.002

− 3.2 ~ − 0.45

0.75

0.004

− 1.98 ~ − 0.13

0.65

  4 min

0.002

− 3.2 ~ − 0.5

0.78

0.005

− 1.9 ~ − 0.09

0.62

  5 min

0.002

− 3.13 ~ − 0.46

0.76

0.004

− 1.86 ~ − 0.03

0.58

  6 min

0.002

− 3.07 ~ − 0.42

0.74

0.004

− 1.93 ~ − 0.11

0.64

  7 min

0.002

− 3.08 ~ − 0.39

0.73

0.005

− 1.99 ~ − 0.07

0.61

  8 min

0.003

− 3.11 ~ − 0.45

0.76

0.008

− 2 ~ − 0.03

0.58

  9 min

0.003

− 3.09 ~ − 0.39

0.73

0.013

− 1.95 ~ − 0.03

0.58

  10 min

0.003

− 3.19 ~ − 0.51

0.78

0.015

− 2.06 ~ 0.02

0.55

 Skin blood flow

  Instant(0–10 s)

0.003

− 56.75 ~ − 13.93

0.93

0.010

− 37.03 ~ − 6.77

0.82

  1 min

0.008

− 52.21 ~ − 6.88

0.74

0.023

− 36.46 ~ − 5.22

0.75

  2 min

0.008

− 47.66 ~ − 3.25

0.65

0.050

− 31.22 ~ − 2.41

0.66

  3 min

0.002

− 49.12 ~ − 5.04

0.70

0.060

− 31.56 ~ 1.7

0.51

  4 min

0.028

− 42.62 ~ − 0.12

0.57

0.006

− 38.8 ~ − 5.38

0.82

  5 min

0.005

− 39.27 ~ − 4.68

0.72

0.060

− 31.9 ~ 0.68

0.54

  6 min

0.099

− 36.06 ~ 2.98

0.48

0.084

− 30.79 ~ 0.35

0.55

  7 min

0.182

− 31.92 ~ 2.17

0.49

0.117

− 29.43 ~ 4.26

0.42

  8 min

0.272

− 30.75 ~ 2.68

0.48

0.433

− 28.76 ~ 6.84

0.35

  9 min

0.433

− 28.8 ~ 4.48

0.41

0.754

− 29.85 ~ 8.11

0.32

  10 min

0.480

− 24.73 ~ 6.91

0.32

0.937

− 31.04 ~ 9.03

0.31