PLE-2203

A 62-year-old woman presents to her primary care physician with a 2-month history of stiffness and aching in her neck, shoulders, and hips. She is referred to a rheumatologist. After doing a battery of tests, he diagnoses the woman with polymyalgia rheumatica, not fibromyalgia. Which of the following findings is characteristic of polymyalgia rheumatica?