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.
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