How do you know when there is pain in your body? Have you ever wondered how everything is read
through your system to identify the intensities of what we see as pain? It is interesting how our brain can read the different
levels of pain we feel, either when we get hurt physically or emotionally.
What is pain?
Pain is an unpleasant sensation caused by a stimulation of
the sensory nerve endings. The
discomfort lets know the brain actual or potential injury to the body. Pain can be more than a sensation, it also
includes perception. The perception
gives information of the pain’s location and the intensity of the pain. The sensation and perception gives an overall
concept on what pain can be.
How is pain caused?
Pain can be caused by an injury towards the body, by an
illness, or emotionally. It is caused
physically by being hurt in the body or emotionally, such as depression.
How is pain processed
to the brain?
Pain can be processed in two different pathways, fast and
slow. The fast pathway detects the
injury location and the severity of the injury.
It is also the known as the warning system. The fast pathway is characterized by
myelinated, thin fibers that send the message quickly to the brain to have a
quicker effect on what has to be done. The
fast pathways have a quick response to the thalamus. In the slow pathway, it is characterized by
unmyelinated fibers which send the message much slower, which causes longer sensation
of pain.
Different Kinds of
Pain…
Pain can be classified differently depending on the
intensity and location of it. There is
acute pain, which can be intense but short-lived. For example an injury is considered an acute pain;
because once it heals the pan goes away.
Another kind of pain is known as the chronic pain, which can be mild or
very intense. This kind of pain tends to
last much longer. For example, in
elderly people, pains in their joints usually go through out their age.
Conclusion..
Pain can be felt throughout our lives but everybody has different
ways of feeling and measuring this sensation.
Some of us can sustain severe pain and others are more susceptible to
mild pain. Everyone is different but it
is good to feel pain so we could know that our sensory system works
appropriately with our body and any danger can be avoided by feeling pain.
This chart is what some doctors use to measure their patient's pain intensity and help their diagnosis...
Here's a video on how pain is transmitted to our brain...
Pain can be something very hurtful for some people and not so painful for others. As for me I am amazed by how strong a pain can be even when it is emotional pain you can still feel hurt up to the point of crying. It is interesting to find out about how does brain recognized pain and how does it handle it, but it is good to know our body can handle a lot of pain. As well as our body our mind can handle a lot of as well for example when we feel sad sometimes we trasnmit that through stressed. There are so many ways how we can get hurt but there are a lot of ways to cope to pain or help reduce it emotionally and physically.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea emotional pain could be similar to physical pain. Depending on the stress and agony the person is experiencing. I also believe that at times pain can be psychological we can decide to overcome our pain or reduce it to a minimal, and of course depends what the person is suffering and their coping mechanisms.
ReplyDeleteThat is very interesting, I’m really fascinated by how pain works and the fact that not only is there physical pain but emotional, before I thought that emotional pain was just kind of like a figure of speech for being hurt, but after doing the readings they have proves that the same areas of the brain are active when hurt emotionally and physically, I was also amazed as to how Tylenol could make emotional pain go away.
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