Bedside Testing for Chronic Pelvic Pain: Discriminating Visceral from Somatic Pain

Table 1

Demographics of women with chronic pelvic pain.

Diagnosis		Age*	Gravida**	Para**	Duration*	Laparoscopy**	Laparotomy
Visceral	𝑁	62	60	60	62	61	59
	Mean	32.3	0.8	0.6	4.8	1.7	0.4
	Median	30.5	0.0	0.0	3.0	1.0	0.0
	Std. error of mean	1.2	0.2	0.1	0.6	0.3	0.1
	Std. deviation	9.4	1.3	1.0	4.3	2.7	0.7
Somatic	𝑁	19	19	19	19	16	16
	Mean	39.4	2.0	1.6	3.0	0.3	0.2
	Median	33.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	0.0	0.0
	Std. error of mean	2.9	0.3	0.3	0.6	0.2	0.1
	Std. deviation	12.4	1.5	1.3	2.6	0.8	0.4

^∗𝑃<0.01; ^∗∗𝑃<0.001.