Dolor isquémico muscular. II Su evaluación mediante el cuestionario McGill del dolor en la realización repetida de un test experiemental

Muscular ischaemic pain experienced by 11 healthy subjects during the performance of an experimental test repeated on tbree succesive occasions was evaluated by the scoring and analysis ofthe McGill Pain Questionnaire, completed by the individual after each test. A statistically significant reduction in three seores: Number ofWords Chosen, Pain Rating Index Total and Pain Rating Index Sensory was observed between the first and third tests. Indices related to the Affective and Evaluative aspects of pain did not exhibit significant variations. Possiblei nterpretations for these findings, especially those related to the nature of the experimental test and the previously reported increase in Pain Tolerance from the first to the third test in this group are discussed. These results stress the need of using adequate control groups when analgesic measures are evaluated by experimental methods