The effect of aerobic exercise on pain perception
Item
- Title
- The effect of aerobic exercise on pain perception
- Author(s)
- Shotton Neill
- Abstract
- Objectives: To determine whether aerobic exercise increases significantly pain perception and pain perception and whether there is a difference in response between males and females. Summary and background data: Pain generally is a costly problem inthe western world in terms of medical treatment, lost time and also in suffering of the patients. Exercise is thought to be effective analgesic treatment of pain with or without the use of drugs. Its benefits can also be measured in terms of increase ingeneral health and all that goes with it. Design: A randomised, controlled, pre and post exercise comparison. Subjects: Ten male and ten female, asymptomatic osteopathic students ranging in age from 22-34 years of age Methods: Cold pressor testing to determine pain threshold and tolerance before and after exercise. Results: Statistical analysis revealed that there were significant differences between pre and post exercise for pain perception and tolerance (p<0.05). Conclusion: Results indicate that aerobic exercise by asymptomatic college students show significant measurable increase in both pain threshold and pain tolerance. There were however, no significant difference between males and females.
- presented at
- British College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Date Accepted
- 2002
- Date Submitted
- 1.11.2003 00:00:00
- Type
- undergraduate_project
- Language
- English
- Number of pages
- 65
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 13026
- Inst-Identifier
- 1076
- Keywords
- Exercise,Pain,Aerobic
- Recommended
- 0
- Item sets
- Thesis
Shotton Neill, “The effect of aerobic exercise on pain perception”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 3, 2025, https://www.osteopathic-research.org/s/orw/item/1312