Intraoperative electrical stimulation promotes the short-term recovery of patients with cubital tunnel syndrome after surgery

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of cubital tunnel syndrome patients treated with intraoperative electrical stimulation (ES) and control

Characteristics	Study groups		p value
Characteristics	Control (n = 87)	ES (n = 89)	p value
Age (years)	52.35 ± 8.94	53.13 ± 9.07	0.184
BMI (kg/m²)	22.58 ± 3.59	22.27 ± 3.91	0.208
Gender
Male	51 (58.6%)	48 (53.9%)	0.547
Female	36 (41.4%)	41 (46.1%)	0.547
Cubital tunnel syndrome side
Left	19 (21.8%)	15 (16.8%)	0.444
Right	63 (72.4%)	65 (73.1%)
Both	5 (5.8%)	9 (10.1%)
Duration of symptoms (months)	16.85 ± 5.26	17.12 ± 6.07	0.227

Values were shown as n (percentage, %) or mean ± SD. p values for each group were derived from Mann–Whitney test. Fisher’s exact test or Chi-square test was used for assessing distribution of observations between two groups

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