Sensory Function and Chronic Pain in Multiple Sclerosis

Table 4

Pain experience in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and controls.

Pain scales	MS patients		Controls		Mann-Whitney U tests
	M	SD	M	SD	Z
NWC-A	4.76	4.09	1.05	1.98	6.75	0.001
CAS Pain Intensity	4.09	2.51	0.97	1.80	8.06	0.001
CAS Pain Affect	3.47	2.76	0.84	1.82	7.41	0.001
FPS	2.34	1.77	0.62	1.15	6.45	0.001

NWC-A: Number of Words Chosen-Affective; CAS: Colored Analogue Scale; FPS: Faces Pain Scale.