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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: people + pain + sensitive  Related to the article below (Last Update: 8/5/2008)

People with disabilities say yesterday's terms can cause offense, pain
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Pain-Sensitive Temperament: Does It Predict Procedural Distress and Response to Psychological … -
E Chen, MG Craske, ER Katz, E Schwartz, LK Zeltzer - Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 2000 - Soc Ped Psychology
... Sensation Seeking/Pain Tolerance (eg, "I can hold an ice cube in my hand longer
than most people."), Perceptual Sensitivity (eg, "I am very sensitive to bad ...

Pain: the views of elderly people living in long-term residential care settings -
P Yates, A Dewar, B Fentiman - Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1995 - Blackwell Synergy
... A systematic and contextually sensitive approach to exploring different pain-management
strategies that may be ... amongst the elderly people in this research. ...

Balance in chronic low back pain patients compared to healthy people under various conditions in … -
MIV Mientjes, JS Frank - Clinical Biomechanics, 1999 - Elsevier
... lateral direction was reliable and sensitive enough to ... increased sway compared to
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Culture, pain, and culturally sensitive pain care -
KE Lasch - Pain Management Nursing, 2000 - Elsevier
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The epidemiology of pain in elderly people -
RD Helme, SJ Gibson - Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2001 - Elsevier
... peak amplitude and subjective ratings of pain in response to ... The CERP is a sensitive
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Why rejection hurts: a common neural alarm system for physical and social pain -
NI Eisenberger, MD Lieberman - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2004 - Elsevier
... rejection-sensitive, compared with non-rejection-sensitive, individuals report more
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Pain and quality of life among older people with rheumatoid arthritis and/or osteoarthritis: a … -
ULF JAKOBSSON, IR HALLBERG - Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2002 - Blackwell Synergy
... the pain and QoL measures are most sensitive in revealing ... regarding differences in
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Endurance Training of the Trunk Extensor Muscles in People With Subacute Low Back Pain -
B Chok, R Lee, J Latimer, SB Tan - Physical Therapy, 1999 - physicaltherapyjournal.org
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Pain in the nursing home -
WM Stein - Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2001 - Elsevier
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… & Lawrence systems for the tibiofemoral joint in people aged 35-54 years with chronic knee pain -
IF Petersson, T Boegard, T Saxne, AJ Silman, B … - British Medical Journal, 1997 - ard.bmj.com
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Obese People Are More Sensitive To Pain, Suggests Study

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COLUMBUS , Ohio – Obese people may be more sensitive to pain than people who aren't obese, a new study suggests.

All of the older adults who completed the study had osteoarthritis of the knee, a disease that causes inflammation and extreme pain in the knees.

Participants were given a mild electrical stimulation on their left ankle to measure their pain reflex. The stimulus was given before and after the participants took part in a 45-minute coping skills training session that included a progressive muscle relaxation exercise.

The obese patients showed a greater physical response to the electrical stimulation than did the non-obese people, both before and after the training session. This indicates they had a lower tolerance for the painful stimulation despite reporting, in questionnaires, that they felt no more pain than non-obese people.

"The relaxation procedure helped both groups cope with pain," said Charles Emery, the study's lead author and a professor of psychology at Ohio State University. "Additionally, our tests showed both groups had higher physical pain thresholds after the relaxation session. But the obese participants still had a lower threshold for tolerating the pain."

"This is important because if an obese person begins an exercise program, he may not cognitively experience pain when in fact it is hurting the body on some level," Emery said. "That could lead to severe pain down the road."

Emery and his colleagues presented their findings on March 4 in Denver at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society.

The researchers wanted to see if coping skills training, including progressive relaxation techniques would help people with osteoarthritis to better cope with the pain that the disease can cause. Also called degenerative joint disease, osteoarthritis affects more than 20 million people in the United States.

But they were particularly interested in seeing how the obese group responded to pain; according to Emery, a small number of studies have looked at pain sensitivity in obese people, but many of these studies report conflicting results.

"Some studies say that obese people are more tolerant of pain, while other studies say they are less tolerant," Emery said.

About a third of the study's 62 participants were obese. Researchers determined who was obese based on participants' body mass index (BMI) scores, which relates height to weight. Obese patients in this study had a BMI greater than 30 but less than 35. (Scores higher than 35 are considered morbidly obese.)

The participants underwent two rounds of electrical stimulation – once before, and once after a 45-minute training session where they learned different ways of coping with pain, including instruction in progressive muscle relaxation therapy.

The electrical stimulation came from an iPod-sized device that delivered a slight electrical shock to a patient's sural nerve, a nerve that extends along the ankle and into the calf. This kind of electrical stimulation causes sensations of tingling and mild pain in the lower leg.

The researchers determined the body's response to sural nerve stimulation by measuring the reflex of the lower leg muscles that surround the sural nerve. When the brain senses pain, it sends a message to the body to contract and move the muscles in order to get away from the source of the pain.

"This kind of evaluation is in some ways a more objective way of measuring the body's response to pain, as opposed to simply asking someone if they feel pain," Emery said.

But the researchers did ask participants how much pain they felt. Participants completed questionnaires about anxiety and pain perception after each round of electrical stimulations. All participants, obese or not, reported that they felt less pain after the relaxation session than they did before.

Yet results of the sural nerve stimulus test showed that the obese participants did not tolerate the painful stimulus as well as the non-obese individuals.

"Our findings show the importance of looking at objective as well as subjective measurements of how the body responds to pain stimuli," Emery said.

Emery conducted the study with colleagues from Ohio State, Ohio and Duke universities.

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Contact: Charles Emery, (614) 688-3061; emery@psy.ohio-state.edu

Written by Holly Wagner, (614) 292-8310; Wagner.235@osu.edu

Contact: Charles Emery
emery@psy.ohio-state.edu
Ohio State University
 
 
 
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