NCT03642938

Exercise Dosing for Pain in Healthy Participants

The Dosing of Aerobic Exercise Therapy on Experimentally-induced Pain in Healthy Female Participants.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 41 (actual)
• Sponsor: Duquesne University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In this study investigators will examine the effect of dose related to exercise therapy for pain in healthy adult humans. An acute pain model will be employed to study the effect of exercise dose on pain. Acute pain models are currently used to study pain (both acute and chronic) in human samples as there is currently no chronic pain model.

Detailed description

This study is designed as a randomized controlled trial with repeated measures. The effect of exercise dose on pain: subjects will be randomly assigned to one of four exercise groups: 1.) no exercise (control); 2.) low dose exercise (3x/week); 3.) moderate dose exercise (5x/week). 4.) high dose exercise (10x/week).

Conditions

• Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Walking Exercise	Exercise groups will perform moderate intensity treadmill walking at a speed of 3.5 mph at a 0% incline for 30 minutes.
BEHAVIORAL	Control	The Control group will perform 30 minutes of quiet rest.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-02-11
• Primary completion: 2017-06-06
• Completion: 2017-06-06
• First posted: 2018-08-22
• Last updated: 2023-08-02
• Results posted: 2023-08-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States