Exercise lowers pain threshold in chronic fatigue syndrome.
case_control · Level III
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.pain.2004.02.029.
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Abstract
Post-exertional muscle pain is an important reason for disability in patients who are diagnosed to have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). We compared changes in pain threshold in five CFS patients with five age and sex matched controls following graded exercise. Pain thresholds, measured in the skin web between thumb and index finger, increased in control subjects with exercise while it decreased in the CFS subjects. Increased perception of pain and/or fatigue after exercise may be indicative of a dysfunction of the central anti-nociceptive mechanism in CFS patients.
Medical subject headings
- Exercise
- Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic
- Pain
- Pain Threshold