Contents:
- Medical Video: The 4 Causes of Bone Pain
- What determines the severity of the pain you feel?
- Factors that make you more resistant to pain
- 1. Situations and conditions
- 2. Fear
- 3. Causes of pain
- 4. Background or lifestyle
Medical Video: The 4 Causes of Bone Pain
Some people - even adults - are so afraid of being injected or taken blood. They felt that the syringe was so painful. On the other hand, there are people who are calm if they need to be injected with needles. In fact, the type of needle used is the same and the injection technique is the same.
Then why can the pain from this needle puncture be felt with a different sensation in each person? Why is there someone who is sick while there are people who really can't stand the slightest pain? Well, here is the full explanation.
What determines the severity of the pain you feel?
Everyone does have different perceptions (acceptance) of pain despite situations, conditions, injuries, or procedures that cause pain exactly the same. According to experts who study how pain arises, it is concluded that pain is actually regulated by the brain, not by the part of your body that is sick.
That is, when you are injected in the arm for example, not your arm will feel pain. Instead, the brain will read signals from the tissues and nerves of the arms. From there, the brain then processes the information obtained by the arm. This information is used as a reference to act against pain. For example, frowning, screaming, crying, or clenching fists.
So, pain perception depends on the reaction and the way the brain processes information from pain triggers. Not as bad as the trigger. This is why everyone can have a different level of pain from the same experience.
The same person can even have different pain perceptions. For example, when accidentally slicing a finger with a knife. For some people, pain due to slicing a knife is even more torturous than pain when giving birth. In fact, medically giving birth is certainly more serious effects on the body.
Factors that make you more resistant to pain
Pain is not only influenced by the cause, but also by several important factors as follows.
1. Situations and conditions
Your surroundings can affect a person's perception of pain. People who are injected in a quiet environment with friendly and informative medical staff tend to be more resistant to pain. While if you are injected by a medical officer who looks rushed or unfriendly, you may feel more pain.
2. Fear
If you have heard of a bad brother or sister experience when you are extracted, fear or panic will cover your mind. When it's your turn to pull out your teeth, you will even feel a more severe pain than you should. Meanwhile, if you have heard suggestions from other people that pulling teeth does not feel at all, you also become more confident. Therefore, the brain will not overreact when the gum nerve sends pain signals.
3. Causes of pain
Childbirth, piercing, or tattooing should feel very painful. However, some people just don't feel the pain is too severe. This is because they believe that the pain has a useful reason. This will trigger the production of the hormone dopamine in the brain. The dopamine hormone is responsible for blocking pain signals from the body to the brain.
Whereas if you fall slip, the pain can come repeatedly. This is because there is no purpose or reason at all. You will actually produce a stress hormone called cortisol which aggravates the pain or pain that is felt.
4. Background or lifestyle
A person's cultural, occupational, and lifestyle background turns out to affect your tolerance level for pain. This is why boxers, wrestlers and sports athletes tend to be more resistant to pain.
Their brains are used to receiving pain signals from various tissues and nerves throughout the body. Over time, the reaction of the brain will decrease when they are injured or injured.
