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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pain. 2012 Nov 8;13(12):1139–1150. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2012.09.006

Table 2.

Summary of pain threshold effect sizes by exercise and pain stimuli type in healthy participants

Pain response measure Number of studies Subjects Mean effect size Effect size SD Unbiased effect sizea
Aerobic
Pressure 2 47 0.84 0.89 0.58
Thermal heat 1 10 0.04 0.04
Thermal cold 2 18 0.34 0.43 0.30
All aerobic Threshold 4 57 0.48 0.61 0.43
Isometric
Pressure 9 222 1.27 0.78 1.05
Dynamic resistance
Pressure 2 4 0.86 0.18 0.83
a

Weighted by sample size.