| Abstract [eng] |
The goal of this research was to clarify how athletes perceive pain and what are the correlations between pain perception and the frequency of the use of pain coping strategies. Three types of pain, namely muscle pain, healing injury pain and far-gone pain were taken into consideration. 50 athletes representing athletics, rowing, cycling and swimming participated in the research and fi lled in the questionnaires, comprised of Visual Analogue Scales (Huskisson, 1974), Semantic Differential Scale (Suslavičius, 1988) and PMS-I (Kleinert, 2002) questionnaire. The results revealed that the mean evaluation of muscle pain intensity was 42.64, the mean intensity of healing injury pain — 60.51 and the mean intensity of far-gone pain — 57.81. The rating of muscle pain was signifi cantly lower than the rating of healing injury and far-gone pain (in both cases p < 0.01). According to Semantic Differential Scales, pain was perceived as bad, awful, intense, heavy, acute, tensing, decreasing and tiring, however muscle pain was perceived as useful while healing injury pain and far-gone pain were perceived as harmful. The results also confi rmed relationships between pain perception and the frequency of the use of pain coping strategies, however specifi c associations depend on the type of pain and coping strategies that are taken into account. |
