ArticleApplied psychophysiology and biofeedback2021
Elevated Heart Rate and Pain During a Cold Pressor Test Correlates to Pain Catastrophizing.
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- Does individual pain threshold influence postoperative pain after connective tissue graft surgery?Clinical oral investigations · 2026Article
- Pain assessment using physiological responses/markers in different types of pain: a scoping review.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- The Impact of Catastrophization and Emotions on Pain: A Narrative Review of Underlying Mechanisms.Journal of pain research · 2026Review
- The associations between cardiovascular and pain responses to a cold pressor test differ between males and females.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Article
- Water temperature and biological sex influence cold pressor pain in healthy adults: a randomized within-subjects trial.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- The moderating effect of resting heart rate variability on the relationship between pain catastrophizing and depressed mood: an empirical study.Biologia futura · 2024Article
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Abstract
To understand the variable response to pain, researchers have examined the change in cardiovascular measures to a uniform painful stimulation. Pain catastrophizing is the tendency to magnify or exaggerate pain sensations, and it affects the outcome of rehabilitation in a clinical setting. Its effect on cardiovascular changes during a painful stimulus is unclear. Twenty-four healthy human participants completed the study. All participants completed a cold pressor test while subjective pain intensity was measured with a numeric pain scale from 0-10. Continuous cardiac output measurements were obtained with finger-pulse plethysmograph waveform analysis. The measurements included systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate averaged over 30 s intervals. Pain catastrophizing and anxiety were assessed using the pain catastrophizing scale (PCS), and Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventories, respectively. Peak pain was correlated to pain catastrophizing (r = 0.628, p < 0.01). There was a strong correlation between change in heart rate (HR) and subjective peak pain (r = 0.805, p < 0.01), total PCS (r = 0.474, p < 0.05), and the helplessness subscale of the PCS (r = 0.457, p < 0.05). Peak pain and catastrophizing explained a significant amount of the variance for the change in HR during the cold pressor test (R
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