A Brief Mindfulness Meditation Training Increases Pain Threshold and Accelerates Modulation of Response to Tonic Pain in an Experimental Study | Zendy

Keren Reiner | Zendy; Michal Granot | Zendy; Eliran Soffer | Zendy; Joshua D. Lipsitz | Zendy

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A Brief Mindfulness Meditation Training Increases Pain Threshold and Accelerates Modulation of Response to Tonic Pain in an Experimental Study

Author(s) -

Keren Reiner,

Michal Granot,

Eliran Soffer,

Joshua D. Lipsitz

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

pain medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893

H-Index - 97

eISSN - 1526-4637

pISSN - 1526-2375

DOI - 10.1111/pme.12883

Subject(s) - tonic (physiology) , mindfulness , meditation , threshold of pain , pain catastrophizing , moderation , chronic pain , psychology , medicine , pain tolerance , audiology , physical therapy , anesthesia , clinical psychology , neuroscience , social psychology , philosophy , theology

Research shows that mindfulness meditation (MM) affects pain perception; however, studies have yet to measure patterns of change over time. We examined effects of MM on perception of experimental heat pain using multiple psychophysical indices, including pattern of change in response to tonic painful stimuli. We also tested the potential moderating role of baseline mindfulness.

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