Musical Agency during Physical Exercise Decreases Pain
Autor: | Annette Lederer, Thomas Hans Fritz, Eric Busch, Daniel L. Bowling, Oliver Contier, Lydia Schneider, Arno Villringer, Felicia Höer, Joshua A. Grant |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pain tolerance lcsh:BF1-990 Physical exercise Musical 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Physical medicine and rehabilitation Threshold of pain Agency (sociology) medicine Psychology pain 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Psychology Original Research Endogenous opioid endurance 05 social sciences musical agency Cold pressor test cold pressor test humanities lcsh:Psychology Mood endorphin sport 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
Zdroj: | Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 8 (2018) Frontiers in Psychology |
ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
Popis: | Objectives: When physical exercise is systematically coupled to music production, exercisers experience improvements in mood, reductions in perceived effort, and enhanced muscular efficiency. The physiology underlying these positive effects remains unknown. Here we approached the investigation of how such musical agency may stimulate the release of endogenous opioids indirectly with a pain threshold paradigm. Design: In a cross-over design we tested the opioid-hypothesis with an indirect measure, comparing the pain tolerance of 22 participants following exercise with or without musical agency. Method: Physical exercise was coupled to music by integrating weight-training machines with sensors that control music-synthesis in real time. Pain tolerance was measured as withdrawal time in a cold pressor test. Results: On average, participants tolerated cold pain for ~5 s longer following exercise sessions with musical agency. Musical agency explained 25% of the variance in cold pressor test withdrawal times after factoring out individual differences in general pain sensitivity. Conclusions: This result demonstrates a substantial pain reducing effect of musical agency in combination with physical exercise, probably due to stimulation of endogenous opioid mechanisms. This has implications for exercise endurance, both in sports and a multitude of rehabilitative therapies in which physical exercise is effective but painful. |
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