Abstract
363 - High Fitness and Vigorous Physical Activity Relate to Select Pain Sensitivity Assessments in Healthy Adults
The journal of pain, Vol.29(Supplement)
04/2025
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2025.105161
Abstract
Increasingly, research suggests that physical activity (PA) may assist in the prevention of chronic pain and the reduction of both acute and chronic pain symptoms. Yet, the relationships between quantitative sensory testing (QST) of pain processing and PA remain unclear with mixed findings in the literature. This study aimed to investigate associations of multiple measures of PA and fitness assessments with multiple measures of pain sensitivity, where we hypothesized associations with both static and dynamic QST. 64 healthy adults (30 F) spanning both high and low activity levels completed a battery of mechanical static (pressure pain thresholds, PPT) and dynamic (temporal summation, TS, and conditioned pain modulation, CPM) QST. PA was assessed by self-report using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and objectively by accelerometry over 7 days: sedentary, moderate-to-vigorous (MVPA), vigorous and total PA. YMCA step test assessed cardiorespiratory fitness. Relationships were assessed using correlation and regression analyses. Higher PPTs were related to greater self-reported MVPA, vigorous PA, total PA, accelerometry vigorous PA, and high cardiorespiratory fitness (p ≤ 0.01). Only self-reported vigorous PA was inversely correlated with TS (p = 0.01); no other PA or fitness metrics significantly related with TS or CPM (p ≥ 0.04). We conclude that not all fitness and PA metrics are equally related to static and dynamic QST. This demonstrates that the mixed findings reported in the literature are also observed in a single cohort, suggesting that PA and fitness show unique associations with different QST assessments, and self-report more than accelerometry.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- 363 - High Fitness and Vigorous Physical Activity Relate to Select Pain Sensitivity Assessments in Healthy Adults
- Creators
- Omid KhoshaviLaura A. Frey LawShannon L. Merkle
- Resource Type
- Abstract
- Publication Details
- The journal of pain, Vol.29(Supplement)
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jpain.2025.105161
- ISSN
- 1526-5900
- eISSN
- 1528-8447
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/2025
- Academic Unit
- Nursing; Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984820565702771
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