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    Authors
    Sheffield, David cc
    Thornton, C
    Jones, M.V.
    Affiliation
    University of Derby
    Northumbria University
    Manchester Metropolitan University
    Issue Date
    2020-03-29
    
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    Abstract
    This study examined the effect of cold pressor pain on performance in high-contact athletes, low-contact athletes and non-athletes. A three-group between-subjects experimental design was used. Seventy-one participants completed a motor task and a cognitive task of different complexity (easy or hard) both in pain and not in pain. The motor task involved participants throwing a tennis ball at numbered targets in the correct order. In the cognitive task, participants were required to check off the numbers one to twenty-five in the correct order from a grid of randomly ordered numbers. Task difficulty was increased by adding dummy targets (motor task) or extra numbers (cognitive task). Cold pressor pain was rated as less intense by high-contact athletes during both tasks compared to low-contact athletes and non-athletes. High-contact athletes’ performance was not hampered by pain on the motor task, whereas it was in low-contact athletes and non-athletes. However, pain did not hamper performance for any group during the cognitive task. Low-contact and non-athletes did not differ from each other in their pain reports or the degree to which their performance was hampered by pain in either task. This study provides evidence that adaptation to pain through participation in high-contact sports can enhance both pain tolerance generally and motor performance specifically under increases in pain. The mechanisms behind these differences warrant further exploration.
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    Sheffield, D., Thornton, C., & Jones, M. V. (2020). 'Pain and athletes: Contact sport participation and performance in pain'. Psychology of Sport and Exercise.
    Publisher
    Elsevier BV
    Journal
    Psychology of Sport and Exercise
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624724
    DOI
    10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101700
    Additional Links
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1469029219306582?via%3Dihub#!
    http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/625572/
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    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    1469-0292
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101700
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