Contralateral limb movement modulates cold pressor pain

Eric E. Brodie; Fiona M. Kane; Karel Gijsbers; Catherine A. Niven

doi:10.1016/j.acpain.2009.07.002

Contralateral limb movement modulates cold pressor pain

Eric E. Brodie, Fiona M. Kane, Karel Gijsbers, Catherine A. Niven

Glasgow Caledonian University

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Abstract

Many studies investigating the attenuation of pain by psychological means have confounded cognitive factors with motoric factors. Two experiments were performed to investigate the extent to which intentional movements alone can attenuate experimental pain. Reciprocal finger movements of the limb contralateral to a noxiously stimulated limb were found to result in significantly longer tolerance times and significantly lower pain intensity ratings when visual attention was directed to and away from the spatial location of the noxious stimulation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	121-128
Number of pages	8
Journal	Acute Pain
Volume	11
Issue number	2011-03-04
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acpain.2009.07.002
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2009

Keywords

cold pressor pain
limb movement

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10.1016/j.acpain.2009.07.002

http://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/sls/229

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