Pressure pain thresholds in office workers with chronic neck pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Alexandre Maurício Passos NunesJoão Paulo Azinheira Martins MoitaMaria Margarida Marques Rebelo EspanhaKristian Kjaer PetersenLars Arendt-Nielsen

Published in: Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain (2021)

This meta-analysis found that all the PPT measurements were not significantly reduced in office workers with chronic neck pain compared with healthy workers. These assumptions were based on a small sample of existing studies, and therefore further studies are necessary to quantify the differences in PPTs. Hypersensitivity PPT reference values are proposed for localized and extrasegmental sites in office workers with chronic neck pain.

Keyphrases

systematic review
case control
chronic pain
drug induced
neuropathic pain
meta analyses