Explicit education about exercise-induced hypoalgesia influences pain responses to acute exercise in healthy adults: a randomized controlled trial

Jones, Matthew D., Valenzuela Arteaga, Trinidad, Booth, John, Taylor, Janet L., and Barry, Benjamin K. (2017) Explicit education about exercise-induced hypoalgesia influences pain responses to acute exercise in healthy adults: a randomized controlled trial. The Journal of Pain, 18 (11). pp. 1409-1416.

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Abstract

The mechanisms through which acute exercise reduces pain (ie, exercise-induced hypoalgesia [EIH]) are poorly understood. This study aimed to determine if education about EIH affected pain responses after acute exercise in healthy adults. Participants received 15 minutes of education either about EIH (intervention, n = 20) or more general education about exercise and pain (control, n = 20). After this, the participants’ knowledge and beliefs about exercise and pain were assessed. Pressure pain thresholds were then measured before and after 20 minutes of cycle ergometer exercise. Compared with the control group, the intervention group believed more strongly that pain could be reduced by a single session of exercise (P = .005) and that the information they had just received had changed what they thought about the effect of exercise on pain (P = .045). After exercise, pressure pain threshold increased in both groups, but the median increase was greater in the intervention group compared with the control group (intervention = .78 kg/cm2, control = .24 kg/cm2, P = .002, effect size [r] of difference = .49). These results suggest that cognitive processes in the appraisal of pain can be manipulated to influence EIH in healthy adults.

Item ID: 72806
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1528-8447
Keywords: Pain threshold, pain appraisal, education, hypoalgesia, exercise
Copyright Information: © 2017 by the American Pain Society.
Funders: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Projects and Grants: NHMRC 1055084
Date Deposited: 16 Jun 2022 00:48
FoR Codes: 42 HEALTH SCIENCES > 4207 Sports science and exercise > 420799 Sports science and exercise not elsewhere classified @ 100%
SEO Codes: 20 HEALTH > 2001 Clinical health > 200103 Human pain management @ 100%
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