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Tender Points

Known as: Counterstrain Points, Jones Points, Strain-Counterstrain Points 
1. Small, hypersensitive points in the myofascial tissues of the body that do not have a pattern of pain radiation. These points are a manifestation… 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Chronic Low Back Pain in Older Adults: Prevalence, Reliability, and Validity of Physical Examination Findings
Objectives: To develop a structured physical examination protocol that identifies common biomechanical and soft‐tissue… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Body pain area and pain-related negative affect predict clinical pain intensity in patients with fibromyalgia.
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
What do tender points measure? Influence of distress on 4 measures of tenderness.
OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between current pain, distress, and ascending and random measures of tenderness. METHODS… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
The relation between tender points and fibromyalgia symptom variables: evidence that fibromyalgia is not a discrete disorder in the clinic
OBJECTIVE To investigate the relation between measures of pain threshold and symptoms of distress to determine if fibromyalgia is… 
Review
1996
Review
1996
More pain, more tender points: is fibromyalgia just one end of a continuous spectrum?
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the hypothesis that fibromyalgia represents one end of a spectrum in which there is a more general… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
Tender points/fibromyalgia vs. trigger points/myofascial pain syndrome: a need for clarity in terminology and differential diagnosis.
OBJECTIVE This study reviews the clinical distinctions between fibromyalgia (FM) and myofascial pain syndrome (MPS), which… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Population study of tender point counts and pain as evidence of fibromyalgia
Abstract Objective: To determine the relation between tender points, complaints of pain, and symptoms of depression, fatigue, and… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Assessment of nonarticular tenderness and prevalence of fibromyalgia in children.
Fibromyalgia syndrome (FS) is most common in midlife, but may be seen at any age. Its prevalence and assessment of tenderness in… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
The fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndromes: a preliminary study of tender points and trigger points in persons with fibromyalgia, myofascial pain syndrome and no disease.
Four experts on myofascial pain syndrome (MFP) performed trigger point examinations and 4 experts on fibromyalgia performed… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Diagnostic epidural opioid blockade in primary fibromyalgia at rest and during exercise
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