Open Access<p>Cognitive Inhibition Correlates with Exercise-Induced Hypoalgesia After Aerobic Bicycling in Pain-Free Participants</p>
Author(s) -
Hannah Gajsar,
Christina Titze,
Kerstin Konietzny,
Marcel Meyer,
HB Vaegter,
Monika Hasenbring
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of pain research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.888
H-Index - 49
ISSN - 1178-7090
DOI - 10.2147/jpr.s238718
Subject(s) - hypoalgesia , medicine , isometric exercise , cognition , aerobic exercise , physical therapy , endocrinology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , nociception , hyperalgesia , receptor , psychiatry
Exercise-induced hypoalgesia (EIH) is the short-term reduction of pain sensitivity after a single bout of exercise. Descending pain inhibition has been proposed to at least partly underlie EIH. Cognitive inhibition is the ability to inhibit a pre-potent response and has in turn been associated with descending pain inhibition, as indexed by conditioned pain modulation. Therefore, we hypothesized that cognitive inhibition is associated with higher EIH.