Influence of exercise on visceral pain: an explorative study in healthy volunteers.

Background And Objectives: Contradictory results have been found about the effect of different exercise modalities on pain. The aim of this study was to investigate the early effects of aerobic and isometric exercise on different types of experimental pain, including visceral pain, compared to an active control condition.

Methods: Fifteen healthy subjects (6 women, mean [standard deviation] age 25 [6.