Metrics details. According to the biopsychosocial pain model, multidisciplinary pain treatment MPT offers a promising therapeutic option for chronic pain syndromes. MPT is an interprofessional treatment procedure, consisting of medical, physiotherapeutic and psychotherapeutic treatment units, which has not yet been studied in PIFP. Moreover, the patients evaluated the efficacy of each type of the single therapeutic interventions.
There was a highly significant decrease in the characteristic pain intensity. Also habitual well-being improved significantly, as did anxiety and depression. The perceived disability and stress also improved, but without statistical significance. Physiotherapy was rated as the most effective therapeutic unit.
Patients evaluate physiotherapeutic treatment as particularly efficacious. Persistent Idiopathic Facial Pain PIFP , formerly called atypical facial pain, was described for the first time in [ 1 ] and remains a controversial and poorly-understood pain syndrome.
Moreover, this pain syndrome is quite uncommon with an annual incidence of 4. However, it is obvious that there are patients with chronic facial pain, whatever the diagnosis might be labelled [ 3 ]. Moreover, four diagnostic criteria have to be fulfilled Table 1.
Compared to the definitions of other pain societies, there are certain discrepancies, for instance the presence of concomitant symptoms such as dysesthesia [ 7 ]. Furthermore, individual pain societies did not accept the diagnosis of PIFP [ 8 ]. Therefore, a revision and standardization of the description of the facial pain symptoms was demanded [ 9 , 10 ].
