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

Table 3

Likelihood ratios and odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals in the detection of visceral sources of pain with tests of cutaneous allodynia, myofascial trigger points, and reduced pain thresholds.

	LR+	95% C.I.	OR	95% C.I.
Abdominal cutaneous allodynia	4.19	1.46, 12.0	10.41	2.72, 39.79
Perineal cutaneous allodynia	2.91	1.19, 7.11	5.93	1.76, 20.02
Abdominal trigger points	4.19	1.46, 12.0	10.41	2.72, 39.79
Perineal trigger points	1.35	0.86, 2.13	2.2	0.77, 6.13
Reduced pain thresholds	1.14	0.85, 1.52	1.85	0.55, 6.30

LR+: likelihood of a positive test.
OR: odds ratio of a positive test.
95% C.I.: 95% confidence interval.