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

Table 4

Mean pain thresholds in grams by region of the abdomen among women with visceral and somatic causes of pelvic pain.

	Diagnosis	𝑁	Mean	Std. deviation	Std. error mean
Deltoid	Visceral	62	100.0
	Somatic	19	100.0
RUQ	Visceral	62	98.2	8.6	1.1
	Somatic	19	100.0
LUQ	Visceral	62	98.6	8.3	1.1
	Somatic	19	100.0
RLQ	Visceral	62	75.8*	29.1	3.8
	Somatic	19	91.5*	21.4	4.9
LLQ	Visceral	62	78.2*	27.2	3.5
	Somatic	19	93.3*	20.0	4.6
Perineum	Visceral	62	69.9	25.6	3.2
	Somatic	19	73.1	22.5	5.2

^∗𝑃<0.05. RUQ: right-upper quadrant of the abdomen. LUQ: left-upper quadrant of the abdomen. RLQ: right-lower quadrant of the abdomen. LLQ: left-lower quadrant of the abdomen.