Pain thresholds and tolerances of competitive rowers and their use of spontaneous self-generated pain-coping strategies.
Experimental ischaemic pain was induced in 20 male competitive rowers in training and a control group of 20 males not in training. Pain tolerances, but not thresholds, were higher for competitive rowers. The rowers also reported using a range of self-generated pain-coping strategies during testing which, they claimed, they also used during training. Pain tolerances were correlated with the number and quality of coping strategics used during testing.
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University of Stirling, Scotland.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003163:Competitive Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis*; D017288:Pain Threshold; D020377:Self Efficacy; D013177:Sports