UPI news agency quoted information from a new Norwegian study published in the academic journal PLoS ONE shows that the level of exercise will be directly proportional to a person's pain tolerance.
Physical activity will be directly proportional to a person's pain tolerance
"Maintaining regular physical activity over time can increase your pain tolerance," said team member Anders Årnes, from the University Hospital of North Norway.
For this study, the team of scholars analyzed health data from more than 10.000 adults in Norway, collected twice in 2-2007 and 2008-2015. The experts also examined the people's self-reported exercise levels and their pain tolerance.
Accordingly, those who reported regular physical activity during both rounds of data collection for the study had better pain tolerance than those with a sedentary lifestyle.
In addition, the results also show that a person's level of physical activity is also proportional to their pain tolerance. Accordingly, volunteers with a higher total activity time over two times of health information collection also showed that their pain tolerance was getting better and better.
From these results, the authors also suggest that maintaining regular physical activity could be a potential strategy to reduce or prevent the development of chronic pain.
