Influence of physical exercise in pain threshold in human: A systematic review

Abstract

Pain can be defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of that injury. Aerobic exercise has been widely studied in painful conditions subjects and is related for the improvement of the fragility syndrome, increasing the pain threshold/tolerance during and after its practice. For healthy subjects, aerobic exercise has already shown to prevent various diseases and strengthen the immune system, fighting infection diseases. The objective of this review was to report the modalities of aerobic exercises associated with the treatment of adjuvant pain reduction of experimental pain or tolerance) in the skeletal muscle system a systematic review of clinical studies. search the recommendation. were selected, reporting results related to pain modulation through aerobic exercise. A total of 20,790 studies from which we evaluated 110 records and, finally, we included 7 studies in the quantitative analysis, following the eligibility criteria. The results revealed that healthy men and women (about 97 patients) increased the pain threshold /tolerance through aerobic exercise. Protocols with different stimulations were evaluated. With low quality of evidence, it is indicated that aerobic exercise increases threshold / tolerance of peripheral pain in healthy people.