The Effect of Spinal Muscle Fatigue and Psychosocial Factors on Pressure-Pain Threshold in Healthy Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Pain sensitivity decreases following isometric exercise. It is not clear whether this exercise-induced hypoalgesia (EIH) occurs to the same extent in men and women. It is also unclear if the effect is systemic or local to the exercised musculature. The aim of our study was to investigate whether fatiguing isometric exercise of the spinal and hip extensors would result in increased pressure pain threshold (PPT) at sites local to and remote from the exercised muscles in healthy men and women and whether there is a relationship between central sensitization, psychosocial factors, and PPT.

Subjects

35 healthy adults (age 27.1 ± 4.5 years, 22 women).

Methods

This was a within-subjects cohort study. Participants completed questionnaires quantifying central sensiti

SUBMITTER: Mais S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9891829 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature