Table 1.

Subjective, autonomic, and endocrine responses to stress

	Control	Stress
Subjective assessments
Stressful	1.00 ± 0.56	57.00 ± 5.41**
Painful	0.33 ± 0.33	59.00 ± 4.97**
Unpleasant	6.00 ± 3.82	42.33 ± 5.65**
Systolic blood pressure
Before treatment	117.59 ± 2.66	122.08 ± 2.89
During treatment	116.50 ± 2.56	138.05 ± 2.70**
After treatment	113.01 ± 2.53	115.54 ± 2.72
Diastolic blood pressure
Before treatment	68.51 ± 1.76	69.94 ± 2.57
During treatment	67.01 ± 2.10	81.96 ± 1.69**
After treatment	66.26 ± 1.62	65.49 ± 1.37
Salivary cortisol
Before treatment	11.17 ± 1.42	9.28 ± 0.78
1 min after treatment	10.36 ± 1.26	8.42 ± 0.63
25 min after treatment	7.90 ± 0.88	14.52 ± 1.84**
90 min after treatment	6.12 ± 0.93	8.05 ± 0.83

Subjective assessments were given on a scale from 0 to 100.

**Control group versus stress group, p <0.01, Bonferroni corrected. Data represent mean ± SEM.