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Running to Get Rid of Pain at Metro Physio

Running can sometimes feel to be tiring, boring and sometimes it even hurts.

According to a new study presented at a conference held at the American College of Sports Medicine this year, running can help you reduce and alleviate pain.

Some exercises hurt so much that they are sometimes suggested as a pain management approach for patients with chronic pains.

This article gives some information about this technique which can be used to eradicate pain.

Read the complete article to get informed – you may become able to guide and help others!

Endocannabinoids or opioids?

Two sets of brain chemicals are typically invoked in discussions of runner’s high: endocannabinoids, which are the brain’s version of cannabis, and opioids such as endorphins, which are the brain’s version of morphine.

Both sets of chemicals may also play a role in analgesia (i.e. pain suppression).

For example, a Brazilian study published last year presented evidence that endocannabinoids are responsible, at least in part, for exercise-induced analgesia (EIA) in mice.

Fig. Endocannabinoids

At ACSM, researchers from the University of Wisconsin presented data from a study investigating the interactions between these two systems, since previous research has suggested that they influence each other.

The basic idea was to block the opioid system and see if that changed the response of the endocannabinoid system to exercise.

There was one odd difference between the two groups.

Levels of a molecule called oleoylethanolamine (OEA) increased after exercise, but this increase didn’t happen when the opioid receptors were blocked.

Fig. Oleoylethanolamine

OEA is a marker of satiety, so this seems to indicate that opioid signaling plays some role in keeping appetite in check after a workout.

It’s difficult (and risky) to read too much into the results of mechanistic studies like this, but it’s interesting to get a sense of what’s going on in the brain and body after a workout.

Author: Alex Hutchinson

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