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

Table 2

Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values of cutaneous allodynia, myofascial trigger points, and reduced pain thresholds among women with visceral and somatic pain.

		Visceral	Somatic
Abdominal cutaneous allodynia	Yes	41	3	Sensitivity	0.66
				Specificity	0.84
	No	21	16	PPV	0.93
				NPV	0.43
				𝑃<0.001
Perineal cutaneous allodynia	Yes	38	4	Sensitivity	0.61
				Specificity	0.79
	No	24	15	PPV	0.91
				NPV	0.38
				𝑃=0.001
Abdominal trigger points	Yes	41	3	Sensitivity	0.66
				Specificity	0.84
	No	21	16	PPV	0.93
				NPV	0.43
				𝑃<0.001
Perineal trigger points	Yes	44	10	Sensitivity	0.70
				Specificity	0.47
	No	18	9	PPV	0.81
				NPV	0.33
				NS
Reduced pain thresholds	Yes	52	14	Sensitivity	0.83
				Specificity	0.26
	No	10	5	PPV	0.79
				NPV	0.33
				NS