In life, we will inevitably have bumps and injuries, which often bring a certain amount of pain. But you know what? Sometimes an injury doesn’t necessarily cause pain, and it doesn’t have to be the injury that caused the pain. What is the reason behind this? If pain causes distress, is it possible to be happy without pain?
In life, we will inevitably have bumps and injuries, which often bring a certain amount of pain. But you know what? Sometimes an injury doesn’t necessarily cause pain, and it doesn’t have to be the injury that caused the pain. What is the reason behind this? If pain causes distress, is it possible to be happy without pain?
Why Injury Does Not Feel Pain For
example , a player in a football field is injured in a game, but at this time his focus is on winning and playing. In this case, he felt no pain, even though his injury could be serious.
As we all know, surgery is often accompanied by pain, in order to reduce this pain, anesthesia for surgery came into being.
However, anyone who has been treated with anesthesia knows that during this process, although we temporarily feel no pain, we still have skin pulling and other sensations. So what is the reason for this?
Pain is released through Aδ fibers and C fibers, which are relatively thin nerve fibers. And our sense of touch is conducted by relatively thick fibers, and its conduction path reaches after the spinal cord. Therefore, the two upward conduction paths are not the same.
Anesthesia, which acts as an analgesic, prevents pain information from being uploaded. However, it actually hinders the upload of pain information, and the information that transmits touch is different from the information of pain. So while we don’t feel pain, we still feel other sensations.
Why do people feel pain when they are clearly not injured?
Modern people often experience inexplicable pain and other problems due to their high work pressure, fast pace of life, and irregular diet and rest. I went to the hospital to check but couldn’t find the cause, what happened?
One possibility is that due to the stress of work and too much pressure, some psychogenic pains are caused, but there is no organic pathological change; Changes exist, but are difficult to observe based on current medical technology. However, although it cannot be detected, the pain does occur, so it is still necessary to pay attention.
If it is the first reason, then you should relax properly, don’t put too much pressure on yourself, pay attention to your work and rest, exercise properly, and avoid keeping your body in a sub-healthy state for a long time, such as poor blood flow, which may also cause pain.
Is pain really useless?
People have been troubled by pain to some extent. Pain seems to be a bad term, but is pain really that bad?
actually not. If humans lose their sense of pain, the consequences will be disastrous. There is a class of patients who are born without pain, and no matter how much you hurt them, they don’t feel pain. The reason for this is that due to genetic mutations or genetic defects in their bodies, noxious information cannot be transmitted to the brain through the pain pathway, and even if they are injured, they cannot feel it.
Pain itself has protective mechanisms. One is to protect yourself from noxious stimuli; the other is to avoid secondary damage to tissues and organs caused by activities after you are injured, so as to recover as soon as possible.
Without this dual protection, you may not be able to detect threats in your life, you are vulnerable to injury, and may even be life-threatening. Also, a patient with congenital analgesia generally has a shorter lifespan because he loses the protection of pain.
According to available records, a Canadian female university student was the longest-living patient with congenital analgesia. Because her father was a doctor, he understood the severity of his daughter’s illness. So the girl’s family takes extra care of her in her life so that she can grow up.
But the family couldn’t save her from any harm. After the injury, she felt no pain, so she couldn’t stop hurting herself, and repaired it unconsciously, so that the inflammatory reaction in her body became more and more intense, and finally died of myelitis at the age of 22.
Are modern people more afraid of pain?
When the older generation experienced inexplicable pain in their bodies, they often chose to endure it for a while. A recent survey on pain on the Internet showed that more than 70% of netizens preferred painkillers to relieve pain. 6.41% of the netizens brought one kind of pain reliever at home, 26.92% of them brought two kinds of pain relievers, and 34.62% of them brought three or more kinds of pain relievers. Only 1.28% of netizens did not have any painkillers at home. Is it true that modern people are more and more afraid of pain?
In fact, this also involves the issue of social culture and educational level. Because for those who have suffered, pain is not an important thing, and survival is more important. He may not show it, but he feels the same pain as everyone else.
Now everyone’s living conditions have improved, so they are more afraid of pain, which is understandable. Under normal circumstances, it is not recommended to endure the pain. Because pain is an alarm system, especially for acute pain, when you are in pain, it is likely that there is some disease or injury in a certain part of the body. If the cause is not found or treated in time, the problem may get worse.
We can’t ignore pain, but don’t be afraid of it either. Pain is sometimes a subjective sensory and emotional experience. For example, when we get an injection for the first time, we feel pain. But when we are familiar with the injection process, we will feel less pain. However, if you feel that your body is abnormal, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible to avoid unnecessary harm caused by delay.
