{"id":147893,"date":"2026-10-09T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=147893"},"modified":"2026-10-09T06:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:38:47","slug":"st-daily-study-finds-exercise-may-be-a-surprisingly-powerful-treatment-for-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=147893","title":{"rendered":"(ST Daily) Study Finds Exercise May Be a Surprisingly Powerful Treatment for Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>xercise may be a more powerful tool for pain relief than many people realize, according to a large analysis spanning hundreds of thousands of participants.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pain often makes movement feel like the wrong choice. Yet a large new analysis suggests that exercise can reduce pain across conditions ranging from osteoarthritis and migraine to neurological disorders, inflammatory diseases, and cancer-related pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-adelaide\/\">Adelaide University<\/a> analyzed 157 systematic reviews covering 2,736 randomized controlled trials and 221,279 participants. Across that evidence, exercise was associated with reductions in both acute and chronic pain, making the study the most comprehensive synthesis to date of exercise as a pain treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The results challenge the assumption that harder or longer workouts are necessary for pain relief. Lower intensity and shorter duration programs produced greater reductions in pain, while meaningful benefits were also seen in programs totaling less than two hours of exercise per week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/study-finds-exercise-may-be-a-surprisingly-powerful-treatment-for-pain\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exercise Can Improve Pain \n\nA pooled meta-analyses (n=197,392) shows that exercise reduced pain versus control immediately after the intervention (SMD \u22120.59; 95% CI \u22120.65 to \u22120.53; P&lt;0.001). The benefit held across musculoskeletal, inflammatory, neurologic and cancer pain, and for every modality tested.\n\nhttps:\/\/t.co\/rJKmocxTZl<\/p>&mdash; Dr. John Cush (@RheumNow) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RheumNow\/status\/2108218461700653061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>xercise may be a more powerful tool for pain relief than many people realize, according to a large analysis spanning hundreds of thousands of participants. Pain often makes movement feel like the wrong choice. Yet a large new analysis suggests<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=147893\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,104,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-health-medicine","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147898,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147893\/revisions\/147898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}