%0 Journal Article %T Avalia£¿£¿o do exerc¨ªcio f¨ªsico como fator de analgesia em um modelo experimental de ciatalgia %A Gaffuri %A Juliana %A Meireles %A Anamaria %A Rocha %A Bruno Pogorzelski %A Rosa %A Camila Thieime %A Artifon %A Elisangela Lourdes %A Silva %A L¨ªgia Inez %A Moreira %A Natalia Boneti %A Bertolini %A Gladson Ricardo Flor %J Revista Brasileira de Medicina do Esporte %D 2011 %I Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina do Esporte %R 10.1590/S1517-86922011000200009 %X objective: to evaluate the efficacy of physical exercise (swimming and jumping), with and without overload, working in reducing the pain of rats undergone to an experimental model of sciatica. methods: 24 rats were divided into four groups: placebo (gp), swimming group (ng) swimming 10% group (gn10) and leap group (gs). all groups were submitted to the experimental sciatica model and assessed for pain post-exercise for the functional disability test and the von frey filament. results: in comparison within groups there were significant differences in the moments after injury with the pre-injury, for both assessment instruments. with von frey filament was observed a significant difference in group gn10 and gs in the final moments of evaluation. in comparisons between groups were not statistically significant differences obtained with any assessment instrument. conclusion: treatment with physical exercise was not effective in reducing pain in rats subjected to experimental sciatica model. %K nerve crush %K exercise therapy %K analgesia. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1517-86922011000200009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en