Talk:Anterior cutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome

efficacy of anaesthetic injections
The section Treatment starts:
 * Treatment consists of several such anesthetic injections, sometimes combined with corticosteroids. Such an approach yields persistent pain relief in two-thirds of patients. This beneficial effect on pain has been demonstrated in a prospective double blind trial.

Looking at the referenced study, 13 of 24 patients receiving the anaesthetic injection (lidocaine) evinced significant pain relief compared to 4 of 24 patients receiving a placebo (saline), so I'm confused that the text reports this as benefitting "two-thirds of patients". (I was prompted to check the source after noticing that the text disagreed with the equivalent page at wikipedia.nl,, which says instead that one-third of patients were pain-free after the treatment.)

The two-thirds figure and associated reference were added as part of the first version of the page, which also appears to be the only contribution ever made by that user. Could someone competent to interpret the results of a placebo-controlled trial please check whether "two-thirds" should be changed to "one-third" or something else? Hv (talk) 21:34, 22 February 2024 (UTC) Hv (talk) 21:34, 22 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Oh, I just noticed that the .nl page was made by the same user a few days before they made the .en version, and the discrepancy already existed in those initial versions. I suspect therefore that the Dutch text was original, and an error was made in translating to English (perhaps prompted by the later mention of a two-thirds success rate for the surgical procedure). Hv (talk) 21:51, 22 February 2024 (UTC)