Primary study · included by 1 review

Patients with Concomitant Chronic Neck Pain and Myofascial Pain in Masticatory Muscles Have More Widespread Pain and Distal Hyperalgesia than Patients with Only Chronic Neck Pain.

Munoz-Garcia 2017 · Muñoz-García Daniel, López-de-Uralde-Villanueva Ibai, Beltrán-Alacreu Héctor, et al. · Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2017

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Non-Cochrane · aetiology · 2025 · cited as Munoz-Garcia 2017 · Table 1; Results; Figures 2-6

Outcome this study informs	Pooled effect	Evidence	Certainty
Masseter pressure pain threshold Neck pain or cervicogenic headache (exposure) vs Asymptomatic controls without neck pain or headache	SMD -1.11 [-1.89, -0.32]	3 studies	Very low
Masseter pressure pain threshold Neck pain or cervicogenic headache (exposure) vs Asymptomatic controls without neck pain or headache	SMD -0.50 [-0.97, -0.03]	2 studies · 109 participants	GRADE not reported
Maximum assisted mouth opening (mm) Neck pain or cervicogenic headache (exposure) vs Asymptomatic controls without neck pain or headache	MD -6.16 [-10.05, -2.28]	3 studies · 170 participants	Very low
Masseter pressure pain threshold Neck pain or cervicogenic headache (exposure) vs Asymptomatic controls without neck pain or headache	SMD -0.38 [-0.65, -0.11]	2 studies	GRADE not reported

1 including review in total.