title: The distribution and characteristics of neck-arm pain in patients with and without a neurological deficit.
abstract: Neck and referred arm pain may arise from either somatic or neural tissues. Clinicians use the subjective nature of a patient's pain to aid the differentiation of the origin of the referred pain but little evidence has been presented to support the reliability of this practice. For this reason, 42 subjects with neck-arm pain were studied. They were subgrouped according to their neurological status in order to investigate whether differences existed between the groups in the descriptive nature and distribution of pain. Subjects with and without neurological signs were found to have no significant differences in the pain characteristics of area, region of greatest intensity, quality, depth and pain localization (p> .05).
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Dalton
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Jull