Manual therapy
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Man Ther
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SUMMARY. The pressure pain threshold (PPT), i.e. the least stimulus intensity at which a subject perceives pain, was studied in 30 patients with chronic unilateral pain in the shoulder and arm region. Fourteen trigger points were investigated on both sides of the body using pressure algometry. ⋯ Although the authors expected to find segmentally reduced PPT values on the painful side of the body, a generalized reduction of PPT values was present at all peripheral and spinal segmental sites. Some correlations between segmentally related trigger points were found by factor analysis. Copyright 1996 Harcourt Publishers Ltd.