Pain can be caused by inflammation, trauma, or a cancer process. Depending on the cause, it can be of different nature and severity. Nociceptors are responsible for perceiving pain stimuli. Pain is a subjective feeling, so take the test and see if you are a pain resistant person.
Pain is an unpleasant, subjective emotional and sensory experience related to potential or actual tissue damage (according to the International Society for the Study of Pain).
This physiological phenomenon affects many aspects of everyday functioning. The smallest intensity of a given stimulus at which a given person feels pain is called the pain threshold.
The pain threshold is influenced by many different factors. For example:
- age,
- emotions,
- gender,
- medication taken,
- ailments a person is struggling with.
In each person, you can talk about not just one, but several pain thresholds. This means that some stimuli affect us more, others less. Therefore, we can distinguish several types of pain thresholds - the pain threshold of sounds, the pain threshold related to pressure or temperature.
Certain stimuli of a certain frequency and intensity cause similar sensations in the vast majority of people, e.g. contact with objects at 50ºC may cause discomfort.
A high pain threshold can also have very negative effects, because we can ignore the unspecific symptoms of a given condition and cause treatment to be treated too late.
Pain is a reaction and most of all it is related to protection - if we did not avoid loud noises it could result in hearing damage or even deafness.
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