Effects of Aging on Pain Tolerance: A Comparative Study of Heat Pain Thresholds and Tonic Heat and Cold Stimuli.

Eur J Pain · 2026 · PMC12670344 · PMID 41328660

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Analyses of the subjective ratings showed a trend toward an age effect for both the affective dimension (unpleasantness: U = 149.5, p = 0.08) and the sensory–discriminative dimension (pain intensity: U = 150, p = 0.08), with a higher tendency to report elevated ratings in older adults (Table 2 ). 3.3.

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