Table 3.
Pain measurements
| |
Current treatment (n = 38) |
Completed treatment (n = 60) |
Controls (n = 102) |
P-value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) | Median (Q1-Q3) | Mean (SD) | Median (Q1-Q3) | Mean (SD) | Median (Q1-Q3) | ||
|
PPT leg (kPa) |
389 (156) |
377 (279–454) |
417 (164) |
403 (316–513) |
475 (152) |
457 (363–575) |
0.006 (ANOVA), 0.004 (K-W) |
|
PPT arm (kPa) |
249 (102) |
215 (190–288) |
279 (136) |
248 (188–335) |
309 (116) |
298 (227–355) |
0.028 (ANOVA), 0.004 (K-W) |
|
PPT vestibulum A (g) |
43 (28) |
30 (23–60) |
51 (33) |
46 (25–64) |
- |
- |
ns |
|
PPT vestibulum B (g) |
27 (19) |
20 (13–38) |
51 (53) |
34 (20–70) |
- |
- |
<0.002 (t-test), <0.05 (M-WU) |
|
Coital VAS pain (0–100) |
71 (22) |
73 (56–88) |
40 (31) |
28 (17–68) |
- |
- |
<0.001 (t-test), <0.05 (M-WU) |
| Bodily pain score (0–5) | 2.1 (1.3) | 2 (1–3) | 2.1 (1.2) | 2 (1–3) | 0.8 (0.9) | 1 (0–1) | <0.001 (ANOVA), <0.001 (K-W) |
PPT = Pressure pain threshold, kPa = kilopascal, A = anterior vestibule, B = posterior vestibule, VAS = visual analogue scale, K-W = Kruskal-Wallis test, M-WU = Mann–Whitney U-test.