Expectations affect pain sensitivity changes during massage.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pain-inducing massage produces comparable changes in pain sensitivity as a cold pressor task, suggesting shared neurophysiological mechanisms of conditioned pain modulation. Manual therapy and conditioned pain modulation are influenced by positive and negative expectations. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the effects of positive and negative expectations on pain-free and pain-inducing massage.

Methods

56 healthy participants were randomly assigned to receive a positive or negative expectation instructional set followed by a pain-inducing or a pain-free massage. Pressure pain threshold (PPT) was measured followed by each interval of massage. A repeated measures ANCOVA controlling for post-randomization differences in sex tested for massage x exp

SUBMITTER: Wilson AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10013429 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature