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| Tweet Topic Started: Sat Apr 18, 2009 2:51 am (268 Views) | |
| Pew | Sat Apr 18, 2009 2:51 am Post #1 |
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I've never had a major injury, but I always assumed I had a high pain tolerance. Just compared to some of my friends when it came to getting injured I seemed to handle pain pretty well. But last month when I dislocated my elbow--my first real injury ever--, and the subsequent physical therapy when it stiffened up, my pain scale was just blown out the window. I know that compared to other accidents a dislocated elbow is nothing, but just because I've never really experienced anything truly painful before I guess, this was incredibly painful to me. I didn't scream or cry, but I was just dying on the inside when they popped it back in.. Which brings me to my question- what gives someone a high pain tolerance? Is it through experience-- repeated amounts of extreme pain? Or is it something innate, like you just have a higher tolerance and ability to withstand pain? Do we all perceive pain the same way, but some are just stronger than others at taking it in, or is it that some just don't feel the pain as much because they can block it out? Can we ever really know how weak or strong we are until we've experienced great pain? What do you guys think.. What is the most painful thing you've ever experienced? Would you say you are good with pain? Why? |
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| FaZ- | Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:22 am Post #2 |
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I'm very good with pain. I just think it's about the right attitude. I'm not the kind of guy to fake an injury, if I say I'm hurt my teammates know that I'm not fucking around. A lot of wrestling requires pain tolerance, pulling your head or arm out of a lock hurts like hell, but it needs to be done. Ditto popping something back in, though I haven't had to do that before. This will hurt a little bit now, but I'd rather that than the alternative; that's always my attitude. Alternatively, "Pain is just weakness leaving the body." I have that on a wrestling shirt fittingly with dried blood that I still wear. =D If you focus on the pain, that will always be the most important thing and it will bother you to the point of quitting. It's the same thing with running. If you focus on how tired you are and how much your legs hurt, you might as well just give up there. There are some things you can teach, a good attitude just isn't one of them. My only serious injury was a big tear in my MCL last summer, I've been amazingly unhurt despite playing sports year round for my entire life. When it happened I walked off the field and hobbled around for a while trying to find ice, but there was a swear or two as it ripped. The only thing I can't deal with is heights. For some reason they scare the shit out of me. I can hop along a 4 inch wide bar backwards, but my knees shake when I'm standing on a 3 meter diving board two feet wide. |
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| DeMaGoG | Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:38 am Post #3 |
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I have a really high pain tolerance... that includes eating spicy foods... I basically detach myself from the pain. It's all mental. |
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| Arbiter | Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:12 am Post #4 |
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I know that there are some people who just physically can't feel pain. It's like some neurological "disease" i guess you could say. As for me, I couldn't really say. I mean I don't go out crying or anything like that, but I also don't get hurt very often so I wouldn't know too much. I'd say medium pain tolerance for moi. |
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| SaVoR | Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:28 am Post #5 |
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For me, I believe I have a moderate pain tolerance. I haven't broken any bones yet, but I have fractured/hyperextended my wrist, which I've heard that it hurts way more than a break. Having that happen to me hurt like a bitch, and was the only time I actually cried from being hurt. Imagine all your fingers and the top of your hand touch your arm cause it bends so far back... that REALLY hurt lol. That happened in 7th grade so.. yeah. fun stuff. I've built up a tolerance of pain by just getting hurt, the more I have been hurt, the less painful it is to me. Everything is pretty much a shrug to me now, last time I got injured was slicing my knee open about a quarter inch deep and 6 inches long.. I barely felt that.. I didn't realize it was cut until blood was everywhere.. lol |
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| Korean | Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:11 pm Post #6 |
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As an athlete, I've been hurt many times to know that you just have to suck it up. My most unbearable pain was when I had surgery done on my knee. It hurt, but I just didn't think about it and the pain went away. I didn't even sleep when I was in the waiting room. =P. But ye, I agree with what FaZ- . |
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| Shunpo | Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:56 pm Post #7 |
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I think your actual pain tolerance is more a state of mind than anything. Instinct is to wince, curse etc, but if you just take a step outside of yourself, you can just be like fuck it. Though, I have been through some painful shit. First I had this bicycle wreck in gravel where pretty much my whole bdy was bleeding. Second was when I broke my arm in 8th grade. They had to set it and stuck this long-ass fucking needle in my wrist, and I could feel the shit pumping through my veins like acid. Thirdly (Yes I'm aware this is probably a mistake), I had a hydrocelle -- a buildup of fluids in my nuts caused from one of them not attaching or something at birth, then getting tangled and causing a blockage (lol?) THAT. SHIT. HURT...TWICE. Second time I had to have emergency surgery, said I woulda died if it had been 15 minutes later. Edited by Shunpo, Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:57 pm.
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| Druzil | Sat Apr 18, 2009 5:42 pm Post #8 |
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That's what happens when you have a deep cut, especially if it's clean. It doesn't hurt at first, it's just really hot. And saying everything is a shrug to you makes me laugh.. try breaking your leg and having the doctors have to break your other leg to make them even length again. |
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| Stun | Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:26 pm Post #9 |
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Cuts don't really bother me anymore, just the breaks that hurt. If you are an athlete though in a contact sport, often your adrenaline is so high it's hard to notice pain. Atleast that's the case for me, but I know after my adrenaline dies down and i wake up the next morning im always wondering how the fuck i got so sore |
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| Korean | Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:35 am Post #10 |
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Same here, after u smash something up, it hurts for the first 2 minutes and it's really unnoticable afterwards but the next morning, it hurts like shit. Like in basketball camp, we had to do so many pushups and wallsits throughout the whole 3 hours and the next 2 days I can barely move. :P |
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| Aztec | Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:42 pm Post #11 |
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Pain is biological. The amount of pain one feels depends on their physiology. Everyone's physiology is different, so the amount of pain you feel would be different than the amount of pain another person feels. More specifically, it depends on the nerves. A person might feel more pain from a scratch than someone else would feel with the same exact scratch, received the same exact way. But they could feel less pain from a broken bone than someone else would feel if they broke the same bone is the same way. And where most people mistake is the difference between "pain tolerance" and the actual amount of pain. Pain tolerance is purely mental. Some people don't flinch at all to pain. Others scream and cry like a baby fresh out of the womb. And yes, pain tolerance can increase with repeated amounts of pain, but pain tolerance is also innate. Pain and pain tolerance have nothing to do with one's strength. I could say that yes, I do have a high pain tolerance, and say that I don't. Both would be true. It all depends on what type of pain and what caused it. I have a low tolerance for pain caused by sprains and bruised bones, but I have a high tolerance for emotional pain and pain caused by burns. Summed up, there are 2 contributors to the amount of pain one expresses. If one expresses little pain, it is because either they feel little pain, and/or they have a high tolerance for it so they can consciously hold back from showing the pain. If one expresses much pain, it is because they are experiencing extreme pain and/or have a low tolerance for it. Edited by Aztec, Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:52 pm.
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| Pew | Sun Apr 19, 2009 10:45 pm Post #12 |
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You studied this..? ahh that was very insightful post, thanks. It cleared up a lot of my questions about pain and peoples' perception of it.. |
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| Aztec | Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:57 pm Post #13 |
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Studied it a bit. I'm a psychology student. |
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| Geofari | Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:32 am Post #14 |
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? Did you mean slow and fast pain pathways? |
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| Aztec | Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:37 am Post #15 |
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I'm not a biology or medical student. I only went into that area as far as psychology is involved. Feel free to add some more, or correct me if I made a mistake.
Edited by Aztec, Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:38 am.
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