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For me, the most interesting part of the reading History of Pain
even our most distant ancient ancestors. Hearts were long considered
the center of sensation, and we still today instinctively say that our
hearts hurt, or are broken. Despite our new knowledge, we dont say
that our brains hurt when were sad. I feel this contributes to our
made up in the brain, right? So why do our brains locate pain where
they do? Do we only feel our heart hurt because we have a cultural
because so far, its being blown by concepts alone, much less specific
read that central pain can often be associated with different quality of
pain, and I had to stop reading because I had so many thoughts. What
causes pain to feel like tearing or burning, compression or expansion?
Are there different types of pain signals? And if pain is chronic, and the
cause cant be found, something has gone wrong not only in sending a
pain signal at all, but likely a specific pain signalsharp or dull, throb
of chronic pain, and reading about its symptoms is like hearing your
own story from somebody else. One quote in particular struck me:
on the pain intensity, but the amount of time Id had to deal with it.
pain than drug addiction is morally debatable, to say the least. For
whereas a single mother suffering from the same debilitating pain may
not have another way to provide for her children, and may therefore
clinician doesnt suffer from pain, they are better- or more logically-
programmer father would say, a feature, not a bug. That is, the total
overriding of all other factors in favor of pain relief may not be a fault
in logic at all, and especially not one worth handing the decision over
someone could logically choose drug addiction over life with chronic
pain?
effects on pain and suffering. As such, the Men, masculinity, and pain
little amount of research that has been done on the topic. I feel its
technically, while specific research may not have been done on men
this).
The form of chronic pain I suffered from varied significantly from
chronic pain. For instance, his chronic pain frequently topped the
pain, it is the high-level blinding pain that you have no choice but to
ones personal dignity and hopes for a life lived in pursuit of something
other than survival; abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Your focus
isnt being split, because you can do nothing else but stare down the
hard pain or search for relief in sleep. On the other hand, in my own
former life left that it was slowly and repeatedly stolen away, rather
that really needs to be saidtheres not much more than can be laid
it themselves.
that pain. Dr. Loeser and Dr. Tauben both emphasized their strategy to
describing good days as a certain number of leg lifts, and bad days as
the inability to sit up, roll over on his own, or even lift his head. This,
perhaps, gives us a much deeper insight into a disabled life than any
know high levels of pain; but far fewer, I believe, have experienced a
life without the ability to move their head of their own volition. This
that expands our own vision of a pain scale from our own vivid life
Alaina Woodford
ask. When visiting our class, Dr. David Tauben named thirteen mostly
those are the conditions Ill be examining today. Any patient with
and patients with one of the comorbid conditions are more likely to
develop chronic pain than the general population. Ill be exploring the
link between chronic pain and these four most common comorbidities
in this paper.
through mere common sense, so I will start by parsing out the links on
medical studies.
general worrying can leave a patient worn out, with little energy left for
keep one from feeling peaceful or safe enough to fall asleep. And
issues with sleep can drain a patients usual reserve of energy, leaving
them fatigued. Low energy can interfere in turn with sleep cycles,
during the day and subsequently getting less restful sleep that night.
these conditions, separately and jointly, with chronic pain, higher pain
that the underlying cause of chronic pain and its comorbidities could
studied over 100,000 patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) and
be 2.3-, 2.5-, and 3.2-fold higher, respectively (Gore E670) than they
Dominick et al. found that patients with two or more physical chronic
Depression, anxiety, low energy, and sleep disorders can all result from
this large and negative life change. Several of these symptoms are
adjustment to life with chronic pain. Price showed signs of all four
impairment.