The Relationship between Mechanical Hyperalgesia Assessed by Manual Tender Point Examination and Disease Severity in Patients with Chronic Widespread Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study

<table>Number of significant covariates versus tender point count (TPC) thresholds, varying between 1 and 17 and with the pain response cutoff set at 2 at the tender point examination. Analyzed in the univariate/marginal model a large number of variables linked to pain and pain-related functional interference (summarized in Table <a href="../tab4/">4</a>) appeared as consistently significant explanatory factors from a TPC threshold at 8, indicating a perturbation of clinical disease severity at this threshold.</table>

International Journal of Rheumatology

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Figure 1: The Relationship between Mechanical Hyperalgesia Assessed by Manual Tender Point Examination and Disease Severity in Patients with Chronic Widespread Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study 

Figure 1 | The Relationship between Mechanical Hyperalgesia Assessed by Manual Tender Point Examination and Disease Severity in Patients with Chronic Widespread Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study 