Sastre-Munar Andreu, Romero-Franco Natalia
Nursing and Physiotherapy Department, University of the Balearic Islands, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Sport High Performance Centre of Balearic Islands, 07009 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Healthcare (Basel). 2024 Jan 16;12(2):215. doi: 10.3390/healthcare12020215.
Although pain management programs reduce pain and improve wellness perception in the general population, few studies have explored these effects in athletes. This study evaluated the effects of an educational program about pain neuroscience on wellness, training performance, and pain in youth athletes. Differences according to sex were also explored.
For 12 weeks, 52 athletes were randomly assigned to an intervention group (IG: educational program about healthy sports habits and pain neuroscience) or a control group (CG: education on healthy sports habits only). Before the start of the study and weekly until its end, wellness, training performance, and pain intensity were monitored via a questionnaire.
After the intervention, IG decreased stress ( = 0.028) compared to the baseline, and a higher number of training sessions were performed without health problems (76.6%) compared to the number in the CG (63.0%) (χ = 8.31, = 0.004). Regarding pain, the IG perceived lower pain than the CG did ( = 0.028). Females in the IG had lower pain than those in the CG did ( < 0.05), without differences in other variables or in males ( > 0.05).
An educational program that includes pain neuroscience may help youth athletes improve their wellness status, pain intensity perception, and training session performance.
尽管疼痛管理项目能减轻普通人群的疼痛并改善健康认知，但很少有研究探讨这些项目对运动员的影响。本研究评估了一项关于疼痛神经科学的教育项目对青少年运动员的健康、训练表现和疼痛的影响。同时也探讨了性别差异。
在12周的时间里，52名运动员被随机分为干预组（IG：关于健康运动习惯和疼痛神经科学的教育项目）或对照组（CG：仅关于健康运动习惯的教育）。在研究开始前及研究结束前每周，通过问卷调查监测健康状况、训练表现和疼痛强度。
干预后，与基线相比，IG组的压力降低（P = 0.028），且与CG组相比，在没有健康问题的情况下进行训练的次数更多（76.6%）（χ² = 8.31，P = 0.004）。关于疼痛，IG组比CG组感觉到的疼痛更低（P = 0.028）。IG组中的女性比CG组中的女性疼痛更低（P < 0.05），在其他变量或男性中没有差异（P > 0.05）。结论：一个包含疼痛神经科学的教育项目可能有助于青少年运动员改善他们的健康状况、疼痛强度感知和训练表现。
