Table 2. Means of PPT and TSP at test and retest occasions for each sequence of measurements.

Outcomes	Sites	Sequences of measurements	Test		Retest		Test versus retest
			Mean	SD	Mean	SD	(F)	(p)
PPTa (kPa)	S1	1-2-3(4)	519.50	205.61	533.48	214.72	0.608	0.443
		1-2-3	522.87	206.88	534.07	211.79	0.351	0.559
		2-3-4	517.20	205.77	532.58	212.41	0.548	0.466
		1–2	521.79	216.07	530.32	210.10	0.289	0.596
		1	536.77	222.51	527.45	209.86	0.248	0.623
	LES	1-2-3(4)	547.29	199.65	551.32	169.86	0.027	0.871
		1-2-3	551.09	201.84	557.17	172.31	0.059	0.810
		2-3-4	549.62	207.49	559.74	175.09	0.154	0.698
		1–2	549.52	196.11	548.79	174.74	0.001	0.976
		1	553.79	199.52	553.18	181.51	0.001	0.981
	WD	1-2-3(4)	371.67	149.28	355.95	123.96	1.072	0.311
		1-2-3	370.54	149.03	358.91	129.38	0.631	0.435
		2-3-4	365.02	155.98	357.37	130.20	0.225	0.640
		1–2	373.63	142.29	355.61	127.02	1.285	0.269
		1	381.89	141.27	359.97	134.01	1.821	0.190
	WF	1-2-3(4)	368.55	121.92	354.45	115.34	0.916	0.348
		1-2-3	369.47	122.57	353.77	115.16	1.089	0.307
		2-3-4	361.41	127.11	349.83	115.80	0.509	0.483
		1–2	371.86	126.16	356.19	115.64	0.969	0.335
		1	389.94	135.22	365.73	127.69	1.518	0.230
TSPb (NRS)	Hand	1-2-3	2.29	1.45	2.61	1.51	3.461	0.076
		1–2	2.21	1.43	2.47	1.52	1.731	0.202
		1	2.24**	1.63**	2.28**	1.71**	0.011*	0.917*
	Back	1-2-3	1.92	1.32	1.95	1.58	0.015	0.905
		1–2	1.85**	1.31**	1.98**	1.69**	0.016*	0.902*
		1	1.96	1.32	1.91	1.71	0.022	0.884

PPT pressure pain threshold, TSP temporal summation of pain, NRS numeric rating scale, SD standard deviation, S1 spinous process of S1, LES lumbar erector spinae, WD dorsal aspect of the wrist, WF wrist flexors muscles.

* ANOVA were done on natural log-transformation of the data distributions.

** Means and SD of the non-transformed raw data are presented to facilitate interpretation.

F Fisher’s test from a one-way ANOVA_RM.

p one-way ANOVA_RM.

^a n = 24.

^b n = 23.