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Temperament as a modulating factor of pain sensitivity in combat sport athletes
- Source :
- Physiology & Behavior. 180:131-136
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- The aim of this study was to characterise the temperament of combat athletes in comparison to that of individuals who do not practise any sports with regard to pain sensitivity measured with the cold pressor test (CPT) and pressure pain threshold (PPT). The study involved 284 healthy men, aged 18 to 43years. The first group consisted of 198 combat athletes, including boxing (n=19), mixed martial arts (MMA) (n=97) and karate (n=82), aged from 18 to 43years. The control group consisted of 86 subjects between the ages of 18 and 26years, academic students not practising any sport professionally. Pain threshold and pain tolerance were evaluated using the CPT and a pressure algometer. Temperament was measured with the Formal Characteristics of Behaviour - Temperament Inventory (FCB-TI). The contact athletes showed much higher tolerance to pain than the control group using both tools: CPT (p=0.007) and PPT (p
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Pain Threshold
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Personality Inventory
Pain tolerance
media_common.quotation_subject
Pain
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Statistics, Nonparametric
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Behavioral Neuroscience
0302 clinical medicine
Physical Stimulation
Threshold of pain
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Young adult
Temperament
Pain Measurement
media_common
biology
Athletes
Cold pressor test
biology.organism_classification
Hyperalgesia
Physical therapy
medicine.symptom
Personality Assessment Inventory
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00319384
- Volume :
- 180
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physiology & Behavior
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....907624d8757b384502e52637d47f14b5