Nihon Hotetsu Shika Gakkai zasshi
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Nihon Hotetsu Shika Gakkai Zasshi · Jul 2008
Relationship of pressure pain thresholds between the masticatory muscles and styloid process. Part 2. Healthy subjects and patients with temporomandibular disorders.
We previously reported correlations between the pressure pain threshold (PPT) at the styloid process, which represents individual pain sensitivity, and PPTs of the masticatory muscles in healthy subjects, and proposed the 95% confidence interval (95%CI) of the PPT at the styloid process as a reference range. In this study, we evaluated its usefulness as a reference range. ⋯ The 95%CI of the PPT at the styloid process is useful as a means for the evaluation of muscle symptoms of TMD patients.