Exercise-induced hypoalgesia: A meta-analysis of exercise dosing for the treatment of chronic pain.
Anna M PolaskiAmy L PhelpsMatthew C KostekKimberly A SzucsBenedict J KolberPublished in: PloS one (2019)
Modest effects were observed with one significant correlation between duration and pain effect for neck pain. Overall, these results provide insufficient evidence to conclude the presence of a strong dose effect of exercise in pain, but our modeling data provide tes predictions that can be used to design future studies to explicitly test the question of dose in specific patient populations.