Table 1.

Intra-rater, within-session reliability of mechanical nociceptive threshold measurements at each tail region (ICC with 95% confidence intervals).

Age	Sample size	Region 1 (proximal)	Region 2 (mid)	Region 3 (distal)	Average
9 weeks	41	0.45 (0.05–0.69)	0.51 (0.15–0.73)	0.28 (− 0.28–0.61)	0.41
17 weeks	82	0.55 (0.35–0.70)	0.38 (0.09–0.58)	0.46 (0.21–0.63)	0.46
24 weeks	16	0.59 (0.07–0.85)	0.14 (− 0.99–0.67)	0.48 (− 0.20–0.80)	0.41
32 weeks	6	0.10 (− 2.82–0.86)	0.46 (− 1.29–0.92)	0.42 (− 1.46–0.91)	0.33