A study conducted over the course of eight years found that people who exercise regularly have a higher pain tolerance than those who don’t, which indicates a strong positive association between physical activity and pain tolerance.
Published in the journal PLOS One, the study used data from 10.732 participants who took part in what’s called the Tromsø study conducted in the city of the same name in Norway.
It focuses on health and disease and the participants were aged 30 to 87, with just over half being women.
Everyone in the study was evaluated twice, eight years apart. They answered questions about their physical activity levels and participated in a cold pressor test throughout each assessment.
This is a frequent technique used by researchers to instill pain in experimental animals. Participants immerse their hands in 3°C water for as long as possible. The longer they keep their hand in the water, the more pain tolerance they develop.
The study findings showed that participants who exercise could leave their hands longer in extremely cold water.
However, the study mentioned that every participant has become less tolerant of pain over the years.
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