How Does Myofascial Physical Therapy Attenuate Pain in Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome?

Table 1

Differences in experimental pain parameters before and after MPT.

	Pre-MPT	Post-MPT	Mean difference	F
MPT (gr.)	5.6 ± 0.5	5.7 ± 0.4	0.1	1.90	0.17
1^st supra-m (NPS)	29.7 ± 20.5	20.7 ± 15.6	−9.0	12.50	0.001
10^th supra-m (NPS)	41.8 ± 25.5	31.3 ± 21.3	−10.5	15.20	0.000
mTS (NPS)	10.3 ± 15.2	12.2 ± 20.3	1.9	0.24	0.62
HPT (°C)	41.1 ± 2.8	41.9 ± 2.7	0.8	4.81	0.035
Pain 50 (°C)	42.7 ± 2.3	43.2 ± 2.2	0.5	10.60	0.002
Contact THP (NPS)	46.1 ± 13.3	45.6 ± 14.2	−0.5	0.06	0.05
Immersion THP (NPS)	67.0 ± 37.9	72.8 ± 30.7	5.8	1.50	0.12
CPM (NPS)	−0.2 ± 13.9	13.8 ± 12.2	14	34.90	0.000

Data are shown as mean ± standard deviation. MPT, mechanical pain threshold; 1^st supra-m, the mean pain rating of the first mechanical stimuli; 10^th supra-m, the mean pain rating of the tenth mechanical stimuli; HPT, heat pain threshold; NPS, 0–100 numerical pain scale; mTS, mechanical temporal summation; hTS, heat temporal summation; Pain 50, the temperature that induces a pain of 50/100 on the NPS; Contact THP, the mean pain rating from the tonic heat stimulus of the thermal sensory probe; Immersion THP, the mean pain rating from the tonic heat stimulus of the hot-water bath; CPM, conditioned pain modulation.