Table 6. Comparison of Yanagihara’s Score and House-Brackmann Scale between Thread-embedding Therapy and Non Thread-embedding Therapy

	Time	Thread-embedding Therapy	Without Thread-embedding Therapy*	Sig†
Yanagihara’s score	1st visit day	9.52±2.05	9.36±2.65	0.913
	2wks	4.97±1.15	4.73±1.65	0.872
	4wks	30.31±2.42	29,87±2.78	0.850
HB scale	1st visit day	3.41±0.68	3.40±0.71	0.976
	2wks	3.97±0.42	3.89±0.64	0.894
	4wks	2.06±0.37	2.13±0.39	0.907

These data were from Bell’s palsy patients who were treated in 2017 at the same hospital.
Mann-Whitney U test