Social Pain Research Paper

According to a recently published article (1) patients with knee osteoarthritis, women experienced greater sensitivity to various pain modalities. The research conducted by a group of investigators from the University of Florida in Gainesville and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was published Oct. 5 on the website of the journal Arthritis Care & Research.

The Washington Times published an article in March titled “Emory students ‘in pain’ from pro-Trump chalking on campus, protest school administrations.” The essence of this article can surmised quite effectively from the title, but one student’s complaints can most effectively indicate the greatest threat to education today. “I’m supposed to feel comfortable and safe…But this man is being supported by students on our campus, and our administration shows that they, by their silence, support it as well … I don’t deserve to feel afraid at my school.” Our young countryman here has made it clear that he is incapable of merely tolerating someone else’s thoughts and beliefs. The articulated thoughts and opinions of another student are apparently too

David Lewis theory of pain argues that are two different beings and they are both in pain. One of them reacts to pain in a different way than us and the other one explains the pain in a different way than us. Lewis often tell us that pain changes when comparing different species. In this experiment, Lewis uses a human being, also referred to as Madman, and a being that he describes as Martian, which is not human. The whole purpose of this experiment was to address to those who believe that functionalism does not need to be taking too serious to support the cause there are no reasons why Martian pain couldn’t be acceptable.

The proper way to ensure that this is not a constant problem is to make sure that initial pain assessments as well as re-assessments are done in a timely manner. It seems as though the initial pain assessment was completed using the pain scale but the re-assessment was not complete and documented in the proper amount of time. In order to ensure proper documentation of the re-assessment once the first pain assessment has been completed and an intervention has properly been administered, the first action step will be to make sure that the reassessment is complete within one hour of pain intervention. With electronic mars it is easy to build in a recheck into the system to alert the nurse that a reassessment is needed once the pain medication has been administered to the patient. When a pain intervention is done, a flag will come up to remind the nurse taking care of the patient that a reassessment is due. This will also resolve the issue on the tracer audit of how does the nurse know the intervention worked. Another issue on the audit was if no pain intervention was done what was the reason for it not being done.

Exclusion can go from being the last person being picked to play in a game to extreme cases like solitary confinement. Humans have learned that without being in a group they can’t survive, categorizing the need to belong as a necessity just like food or water. In my AP psychology class we learned about what motivates a human, one of the most powerful motivations was having a sense of belonging. It fascinated me how feeling excluded lightened up a certain part of the cortex in the brain, this part is what signals physical pain. Being that exclusion can cause physical pain to the mind and body is why I decided to look deeper into social exclusion and ostracism.

Pain threshold is the point when a stimulus causes pain. Pain threshold limit varies between everyone and the reason for that is because of the genes you inherited from your ancestors. Controlling these genes can result in higher pain threshold or higher pain sensitivity, as the pain threshold depends on your genetics. Sensing pain has been a survival trait for all mankind, making us avoid scenarios that will harm our body. Although having a sense of pain is very useful, what if we are able to control when we feel pain and how much we feel? Both cases have their positives and negatives.The average set of COMT genes is one Valine form of the gene, and one Methionine, the normal pain threshold.The version of your COMT gene depends in your genetics, the combination creates your pain threshold, and the COMT and be used in the medical field.

The authors of the article each come with their own perepectives on pain management in the cognitively impaired older adult.

The sharp pain I endure and the changes I made in my life were difficult challenges. There are hundreds of people in this world fighting a disease. Heather Morgan quotes that “Every Time You Eat or Drink You are Either Feeding Disease or Fighting It” and this is a battle I struggle with everyday. Morgan is an a actress and comedian who played in the movie “Bark!” My life felt as though everything was headed downhill after being diagnosed with a chronic disease.

JM is a 32 years old female who was admitted on 02/09/2016 for a planned C-section. As we entered the room, she was lying on her bed talking with her husband in Spanish about her incision pain. Also, she was talking in Spanish with two of her kids that were visiting and sitting on her bed. When the nurse approached her bed, JM preferred to speak in English with her nurse. While I was doing the interview, she spoke to me in Spanish. This patient dominates both languages perfectly. She is Mexican, but grew up in this country.

My approach is compassionate and thoughtful, despite being known as the Princess of Pain. Don't be intimidated by my nickname, from the first touch I am able to read your body's energies and I will go after the areas of tension that are holding you back . You have to push through the discomfort before you can experience the release, some people call it pain but I think of it as

Pain is something that connects all of us. From birth to death we can identify with each other the idea and arguably the perception of it. We all know we experience it, but what is more important is how we all perceive it. It is known that there are people out there with a ‘high’ pain tolerance and there are also ones out there with a ‘low’ pain tolerance, but what is different between them? We also know that pain is an objective response to certain stimuli, there are neurons that sense and feel pain and there are nerve impulses that send these “painful” messages to the brain. What we don’t know is where the pain

What is the role of the senses in the brain's perception of pain? Do people still experience pain with sensory deficits? How does each sense contribute to pain? Perception is the process of using cognitive abilities and experience to process incoming stimuli and formulate a response (Goldstein, 2010). A stimulus is something that occurs in the environment. Any object or situation, can be considered a stimulus or stimuli. Stimulus can be an action that is witnessed, such as with Ivan Pavlov's dogs. Pavlov used a chute to release dog food and facilitate the salivary response. Another example of a stimulus is a flying bird. The flying bird is perceived by the senses and our cognitive processes are what enable people to recognize

Millions of people suffer with chronic pain; making it the top reason people go see the doctor. With a price tag of at least $635 billion a year, that’s more than cancer, heart disease and diabetes combined. While powerful painkillers help many folks cope, many people don’t want to have to rely on a bottle of pills for the rest of their life.

Albeit a huge discomfort without it we could be in danger, an example of this being when we teach our children not to touch things that are hot, There are people in the world that are born with a defect where they are unable to feel pain at all, this is known as (CIPA) congenital insensitivity to pain and falls under the category of (HSAN) disorders, meaning Hereditary Sensory Autonomic Neuropathy. The peoples

Chapter One Introduction 1.1 Background Pain is one of the way an individual becomes aware of a disease, it also serves as a way of determining the effectiveness of an intervention in the treatment/management of a disease. When absent, it can also signify the eventual absence of a disease. Critical assessment of pain is essential for the optimal management of pain (Mohamed et al, 2013; Purser et al, 2014). Pain is subjective and self-report is considered as the gold standard for pain management, but people with chronic diseases like end stage dementia might not be able to communicate the severity of their pain. The nurses being skilled health–care providers cannot be overlooked in the management of pain, more so pain is regards as the fifth vital sign which should be monitored routinely as other vital signs are monitored especially in patients bed–bound.