Patrick Swayze, who died yesterday at the age of 57, was an agent of 80s virility, a man who combined an almost cartoonish muscularity with balletic grace and high tenderness.
Meat from animals with a high intramuscular fat level often has a low shear force [ 47], and hence high tenderness.
The third, smaller group identified by Giesecke et al. included patients with a low degree of mood disturbances but with a high tenderness on evoked pain testing, which might overlap to some extent with our Cluster 2 (physically poor).
The inclusion of concentrate in the lamb diet improved the sensory quality of the meat, being related to its effect on lowering the intensity of undesirable odours and flavours (strange, rancid and acid), generating higher intensity of typical lamb aromas as well as producing higher tenderness.
Migraine has previously been shown to be associated with central sensitization [23, 24], which may conceivably explain our higher tenderness scores in those with co-occurrence of migraine.
First, FM patients reported higher tenderness than pain scores, whereas the reverse was true of RA/SLE patients, who reported higher pain than tenderness scores.
The women had higher tenderness scores in the neck/shoulder muscles and lower blood pressure than the men.
She has probably heard a lot of Janis Joplin, with her juxtaposition of high, clear tenderness and rasping ferocity, and she has the lung power and finesse to follow through, making each song a winding, wrenching emotional drama, full of ups and downs, dramatic pauses and explosive crescendos.
Compared with the controls, patients with FM reported more tender points (15.2±2.0 vs. 5.9±3.7) and higher total tenderness score (TTS; 29.1±7.0 vs. 7.7±5.5; both p < 0.001); they also had decreased insula DMN connectivity at the theta band (4 8 Hz; left, p = 0.007; right, p = 0.035), but displayed unchanged V1 DMN and S1 DMN connectivity (p > 0.05).
When he relaxed to sing the Bob Dorough ballad "But for Now," and his brother Ben Cullum's "These Are the Days," he conveyed a throbbing, high-strung tenderness.
We found, however, a tendency towards higher muscle tenderness on the headache-side than the non-headache side, which is in accordance with findings in cervicogenic headache.
