Table 3.

Results of ANOVA analysis (F-estimates and P-values) for the QST values and NRS scores to mechanical stimuli in different sites over different days (n = 20).

	gender	LA		LB		RA		RB
		F	P	F	P	F	P	F	P
CDT (°C)	women	1.027	0.324	0.124	0.729	0.024	0.879	0.006	0.939
	men	0.054	0.818	2.493	0.132	0.003	0.956	0.149	0.704
WDT (°C)	women	0.307	0.586	0.045	0.834	0.074	0.788	0.014	0.907
	men	0.340	0.567	0.206	0.655	0.225	0.641	0.026	0.873
CPT (°C)	women	0.491	0.492	1.205	0.287	0.006	0.939	0.111	0.743
	men	0.004	0.952	0.073	0.791	0.677	0.421	0.002	0.963
HPT (°C)	women	0.000	0.991	0.361	0.556	0.010	0.922	0.324	0.576
	men	0.640	0.434	0.026	0.874	0.125	0.728	0.025	0.875
MDT (mN)	women	0.073	0.791	0.559	0.464	0.287	0.599	1.354	0.260
	men	0.361	0.555	0.084	0.775	0.778	0.389	0.251	0.622
MPT (mN)	women	0.000	0.988	0.322	0.577	0.095	0.762	0.225	0.641
	men	0.182	0.675	0.000	0.985	0.420	0.525	0.006	0.938
PPT (kPa)	women	0.338	0.568	0.185	0.672	0.012	0.914	0.485	0.495
	men	0.038	0.848	0.024	0.878	0.277	0.605	0.157	0.697
2PD (mm)	women	0.000	1.000	0.055	0.818	0.010	0.922	0.024	0.878
	men	0.450	0.511	0.194	0.665	0.101	0.754	0.117	0.736
point
(1,1)	women	0.172	0.684	0.070	0.794	0.159	0.694	0.155	0.698
	men	0.016	0.902	0.182	0.675	0.070	0.795	0.016	0.902
(1,2)	women	0.114	0.740	0.059	0.811	0.126	0.727	0.065	0.801
	men	0.565	0.462	0.693	0.416	0.125	0.728	0.222	0.643
(1,3)	women	0.004	0.948	0.216	0.648	0.048	0.829	0.000	0.995
	men	0.200	0.660	1.102	0.308	0.308	0.586	0.299	0.591
(2,1)	women	0.130	0.723	0.302	0.590	0.012	0.914	0.001	0.973
	men	0.000	0.994	0.090	0.767	0.096	0.760	0.721	0.407
(2,2)	women	0.048	0.829	0.000	0.984	0.289	0.598	0.030	0.865
	men	0.205	0.656	0.194	0.664	0.206	0.655	0.259	0.617
(2,3)	women	0.056	0.815	0.075	0.787	0.004	0.950	0.095	0.761
	men	0.030	0.865	0.004	0.948	0.301	0.590	0.094	0.763
(3,1)	women	0.002	0.966	0.137	0.716	0.321	0.578	0.023	0.880
	men	0.587	0.454	0.363	0.554	0.186	0.671	0.051	0.824
(3,2)	women	0.368	0.552	0.054	0.819	0.092	0.765	0.005	0.943
	men	0.113	0.741	0.162	0.692	0.401	0.535	0.008	0.932
(3,3)	women	0.079	0.782	0.005	0.947	0.062	0.806	0.083	0.777
	men	0.149	0.704	0.014	0.907	0.197	0.662	0.183	0.674

Cold and warm detection threshold (CDT&WDT), cold and heat pain threshold (CPT&HPT), mechanical detection and pain threshold (MDT&MPT), pain-pressure threshold (PPT) and two-point discrimination (2PD). LA: left subauricular site, LB: left postauricular site, RA: right subauricular site, RB: right postauricular site.