These tender points are often not areas of deep pain.

Pain when pressure is applied in at least 11 of 18 specific tender points.

Specific tender points on the body may be painful to touch.

Next to pain and tender points, fatigue is a major complaint.

Tender points are specific places on the body in which fibromyalgia patients experience pain.

Pain at certain points on the body (called tender points).

Nabilone treatment didn't affect the patients' number of tender points.

Learn all about fibromyalgia tender points and where they are located on the body.

Tender points are often sites on the body where tendons and muscles meet.

Needle insertion into the tender points was avoided in this study.

These tender points hurt when pressed with a finger.

In fact, pressure on one of the tender points with a finger will cause pain that makes the person flinch or pull back.

What is known is that the locations of tender points are not random.

These spots hurt when pressure is put on them, which is why they're called "tender points."

Now squeeze that web between your left index finger and thumb several times, looking for any tender points.

Tender points are places on the neck, shoulders, back, hips, arms or legs that hurt when touched.

For a person with fibromyalgia, pressing the tender points is extremely painful.

There are 18 tender points important for the diagnosis of fibromyalgia (see illustration below).

Reducing painful tender points in people with fibromyalgia, when applied to the skin.

That means many people with fibromyalgia experience similar symptoms with tender points.

The location of tender points is not random.

Its main symptoms are muscle pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and tender points at certain parts of the body.

Fibromyalgia causes pain and tender points throughout the body.

The new criteria avoid tender points and tender point exams.