Prevalence and anatomical location of muscle tenderness in adults with nonspecific neck/shoulder pain

Table 1 Demographics, clinical and work-related characteristics

	Women (n = 174)	Men (n = 24)	P-value
Demographics
Age, year	43 (11)	45 (10)	0.31
Height, cm	168 (6)	182 (8)	<0.0001
Weight, kg	67 (12)	83 (13)	<0.0001
Body Mass Index, kg^.m^-2	24 (4)	25 (4)	0.14
Clinical
Days with neck/shoulder pain previous year	191 (116)	147 (111)	0.08
Neck/shoulder pain intensity previous 3 months, scale 0-10	5.1 (2.1)	4.5 (1.6)	0.21
Total Tenderness Score, scale 0-32	13 (5)	9 (4)	<0.0001
Systolic blood pressure mmHg	124 (13)	137 (13)	<0.0001
Diastolic blood pressure mmHg	83 (9)	89 (9)	0.003
Work-related
Computer use, percentage of worktime	94 (13)	91 (18)	0.42
Weekly working hours	38 (4)	38 (6)	0.79
Duration of office work, years	11 (10)	12 (11)	0.64

Demographics, clinical and work-related characteristics of the 198 generally healthy office workers with frequent neck/shoulder pain. Total Tenderness Score is the sum of tenderness scores of 'no' (= 0), 'some' (= 1), and 'severe' (= 2) tenderness of the 8 investigated neck/shoulder anatomical locations of the left and right side (scale 0-32).

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