The effects of caffeine ingestion on exercise-induced hypoalgesia: A pilot study

Black, Christopher D.; Gonglach, Alexander R.; Renfroe, Jessica B.; Hight, Robert E.

doi:10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.04.005

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“…It is harder to say what effect acute HIIT should have had on PPT as this has seldom been studied. The demonstration of greater EIH after higher intensities of continuous aerobic exercise (Hoffman et al, 2004;Naugle et al, 2014b;Vaegter et al, 2014;Black et al, 2016) implies that HIIT could elicit even greater EIH during acute exercise bouts. Based on the current evidence, however, the effect of acute HIIT on EIH appears limited [current study (Kodesh and Weissman-Fogel, 2014)].…”

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“…There is accumulating evidence for an intensitydependent effect of acute (Hoffman et al, 2004;Naugle et al, 2014b;Vaegter et al, 2014;Black et al, 2016) and chronic aerobic exercise (O'Leary et al, 2017) on EIH, whereby higher intensities of exercise cause greater reductions in pain. However, most of the acute studies applied continuous aerobic exercise [e.g.…”

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Intensity‐dependent effects of aerobic training on pressure pain threshold in overweight men: A randomized trial

Håkansson

Jones

Ristov

et al. 2018

European Journal of Pain

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Intensity‐dependent effects of aerobic training on pressure pain threshold in overweight men: A randomized trial

Håkansson

Jones

Ristov

et al. 2018

European Journal of Pain

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“…Participants were also asked to refrain from any pain medication and vigorous exercise for 24 h, and caffeine for 4 h before the experiment. 34 Eighty participants were recruited following this procedure. As the present study was part of a larger investigation, 40 participants were excluded from analysis in the present study, because they received experimental manipulations that were assumed to affect EIH.…”

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<p>Cognitive Inhibition Correlates with Exercise-Induced Hypoalgesia After Aerobic Bicycling in Pain-Free Participants</p>

Gajsar¹,

Titze²,

Konietzny³

et al. 2020

JPR

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Purpose: Exercise-induced hypoalgesia (EIH) is the short-term reduction of pain sensitivity after a single bout of exercise. Descending pain inhibition has been proposed to at least partly underlie EIH. Cognitive inhibition is the ability to inhibit a pre-potent response and has in turn been associated with descending pain inhibition, as indexed by conditioned pain modulation. Therefore, we hypothesized that cognitive inhibition is associated with higher EIH. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 37 pain-free participants (16 male, age 27.75 ± 9.91) completed a stop-signal task assessing cognitive inhibition ability and a control condition in the first session. In the second session, pre-post-test design EIH was assessed by means of aerobic bicycling (15 min., 75% VO 2 max) and isometric knee extension (90 sec, 30% MVC). EIH was assessed with pressure pain thresholds (PPT) and temporal summation of pain (TSP), each at the hand and at the leg. Correlational analyses quantified the associations between cognitive inhibition and EIH change scores. Results: Better cognitive inhibition correlated with EIH change scores in PPTs after aerobic bicycling at the hand (r = −0.35, 95% CI: −0.57; −0.08, p =0.021), but not at the leg (rho = −0.10, 95% CI: −0.36; 0.18, p = 0.277). No correlations between cognitive inhibition and change in PPTs after isometric knee extension at the hand (rho = −0.03, 95% CI: −0.30; 0.25, p = 0.857) nor at the leg (rho = −0.03, 95% CI: −0.25; 0.30, p = 0.857) were observed. There were no EIH effects after isometric exercise and, generally, no effects of exercise on TSP. Conclusion: This study provides preliminary evidence for the notion that cognitive inhibition might play a supportive role in EIH. Although these results are clearly in need of replication, they accord well with previously reported associations between cognitive inhibition, experimental pain and descending pain inhibition.

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“…While the effects of caffeine on EIH have been a topic of recent research, the findings have been controversial due to inconsistencies among studies regarding the time of pain measurement. For example, some investigators have reported pain relief during exercise [14,15] and others have found little to no effect on pain perception after exercise [16,17]. Although caffeine has shown little to no effect on EIH following exercise, other stimulants, such as ADHD medication which is a stronger stimulant than caffeine, are widely overlooked in EIH research.…”

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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder medication does not alter exercise-induced hypoalgesia following an acute bout of dynamic circuit resistance exercise

McKean

Baiamonte

Hollander

2018

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The primary goal of this study was to investigate the effects of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications on exercise-induced hypoalgesia (EIH), heart rate, and perceived exertion. Thirty college-age students (10 Controls, 10 ADHD diagnosis, and 10 ADHD diagnosis with medications) completed 2 sessions: 1) a maximal testing session and 2) an experimental session consisting of 3 consecutive dynamic resistance exercise circuits comprised of 12 repetitions of 9 exercises at 60% of 1-repetition maximum using a 1:1 work to rest ratio. All participants, regardless of condition (Controls vs. ADHD without medications vs. ADHD with medications), displayed EIH accompanied by an increase in blood lactate, heart rate, and perceived exertion for the duration of the exercise bout. Therefore, the effects of resistance exercise are not altered by ADHD diagnosis or psychostimulant medication use for ADHD. These findings are intriguing given the known ergogenic and hypoalgesic effects of caffeine, a less potent stimulant.

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The effects of caffeine ingestion on exercise-induced hypoalgesia: A pilot study

Cited by 7 publications

References 55 publications

Intensity‐dependent effects of aerobic training on pressure pain threshold in overweight men: A randomized trial

Intensity‐dependent effects of aerobic training on pressure pain threshold in overweight men: A randomized trial

<p>Cognitive Inhibition Correlates with Exercise-Induced Hypoalgesia After Aerobic Bicycling in Pain-Free Participants</p>

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder medication does not alter exercise-induced hypoalgesia following an acute bout of dynamic circuit resistance exercise

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