A total of 27 traits were examined, 19 relating to carcass quality, such as carcass weight and fatness, one mechanical measure of tenderness, and the remaining seven were sensory traits, such as flavour and tenderness, assessed by a taste panel.
In brief, a total of 27 traits were measured, seven of which are taste panel assessed sensory traits, one a mechanical measure of tenderness with the remaining 19 being carcass and sirloin measurements.
The current study, for which ethical approval was obtained, was designed to assess the extent to which the tenderness or mechanical allodynia observed in delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) might be mediated by large diameter myelinated nerve fibres.
Pain is commonly described as burning, shooting, smarting or aching, and local tenderness to mechanical and cool stimuli is common.
The obvious non-mechanical explanation for bilateral pain provocation is, that local tenderness and referred pain indicate a generalised hypersensitivity of the suboccipital region due to central sensitisation in this particular subgroup of migraine patients [22].
The problems occurring are described to be a quartet of symptoms such as "intermittent posterolateral mechanical knee pain, pain accentuation by full knee extension, localized tenderness with compression of the fabella against its corresponding condylar surface, and immediate and persistent relief with fabellectomy" [ 34].
PPT measurements (i.e., mechanical pain sensitivity) is a more standardized way of determining muscle tenderness and concern the recognition of a new nociceptive stimulus (pressure) in painful or non-painful tissues.
Diagnostic criteria for active MTrP were: the presence of a TB within the upper trapezius muscle and at least one of the following clinical signs; the presence of a spot tenderness (SP) within the TB, the reproduction of pain complains during mechanical stimulation of the SP, and the reproduction of a referred pain with mechanical stimulation of the SP [ 31].
Increased pericranial muscle tenderness is a common finding in CTH sufferers [17, 26, 27], indicating sensitivity to supra-threshold mechanical stimulation is increased in pericranial region of CTH sufferers.
