The Effects of Early Pain Experience in Neonates on Pain Responses in Infancy and Childhood

The tenability of an exclusively “medical model” explanation of pain is called into question. The pain experience is a “mediated” one; the brain regulates the pain experience through its electrochemical activities and attentiveness to pain stimuli. The latter is largely the result of conditioning processes, many of which are related to ethno-cultural attitudes. Zborowski found differential pain responses among American patients of Yankee, Italian and Jewish ancestry. Sternbach and Tursky discovered differing reactions to electric shock among American housewives of Yankee, Irish, Italian and Jewish ancestry. Chapman and Jones studied the pain responses of American negroes, and Caucasian Americans of Northern European, Italian, and Russian Jewish ancestry and concluded that differences in pain sensitivity and reaction exist which are related to ethno-cultural origins. These ethno-cultural differences are discussed and some speculative explanations are offered. The implications of these observations for hospital staff, particularly nurses, are examined and some specific remedies for related problems are presented.

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The autonomic pain relief response is dependent of self or social influence on pain

10.31234/osf.io/84g9f ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Marthe Gründahl ◽

Leonie Retzlaff ◽

Martin J. Herrmann ◽

Grit Hein ◽

Marta Andreatta

Keyword(s):

Pain Relief ◽

Social Influence ◽

Social Presence ◽

Neutral Stimulus ◽

Clinical Applications ◽

Pain Experience ◽

Pain Stimulation ◽

Skin Conductance Responses ◽

The Social ◽

Pain Responses

Pain relief is defined as the ease of pain and is thus highly relevant for clinical applications and everyday life. Given that pain relief is based on the cessation of an aversive pain experience, it is reasonable to assume that pain relief learning would also be shaped by factors that alter subjective and physiological pain responses, such as social presence or a feeling of control. To date, it remains unclear whether and how factors that shape autonomic pain responses might affect pain relief learning. Here, we investigated how pain relief learning is shaped by two important factors known to modulate pain responses, i.e. social influence and controllability of pain. Skin conductance responses (SCRs) were recorded while participants learned to associate a formerly neutral stimulus with pain relief under three different pain conditions. In the social-influence condition (N = 34), the pain stimulation could be influenced by another person’s decisions. In the self-influence condition (N = 31), the participants themselves could influence the pain stimulation. Finally, in the no-influence condition (N = 32), pain stimulation was simply delivered without any influence. According to our results, the SCRs elicited by the stimulus that was associated with pain relief were significantly smaller compared to the SCRs elicited by a neutral control stimulus, indicating pain relief learning. However, there was no difference in the pain relief learning effect across the groups. These results suggest that physiological pain relief learning in humans is independent of social influence and pain controllability.

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358: Intravesical Botulinum Toxin a Administration Produces Analgesia Against Acetic Acid Induced Bladder Pain Responses in Rats

The Journal of Urology ◽

10.1016/s0022-5347(18)37620-1 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 171 (4S) ◽

pp. 94-94

Author(s):

Yao-Chi Chuang ◽

Naoki Yoshimura ◽

Chao-Cheng Huang ◽

Po-Hui Chiang ◽

Michael B. Chancellor

Keyword(s):

Acetic Acid ◽

Botulinum Toxin ◽

Botulinum Toxin A ◽

Toxin A ◽

Bladder Pain ◽

Pain Responses

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228: Physical and Psychosocial Predictors of Pain Experience in CP/CPPS

The Journal of Urology ◽

10.1016/s0022-5347(18)37490-1 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 171 (4S) ◽

pp. 60-60 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dean Tripp ◽

J. Curtis Nickel ◽

J. Richard Landis ◽

Yanlin Wang

Keyword(s):

Psychosocial Predictors ◽

Pain Experience

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Dimensionality and Reliability Assessment of the Pain Patient Profile Questionnaire

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027/1015-5759.24.1.22 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 22-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Brian E. McGuire ◽

Michael J. Hogan ◽

Todd G. Morrison

Keyword(s):

Self Report ◽

Pain Patient ◽

Fit Indices ◽

Depression And Anxiety ◽

Oblique Rotation ◽

Pain Experience ◽

Patient Profile ◽

Adequate Representation ◽

Pain Patients ◽

Report Measure

Abstract. Objective: To factor analyze the Pain Patient Profile questionnaire (P3; Tollison & Langley, 1995 ), a self-report measure of emotional distress in respondents with chronic pain. Method: An unweighted least squares factor analysis with oblique rotation was conducted on the P3 scores of 160 pain patients to look for evidence of three distinct factors (i.e., Depression, Anxiety, and Somatization). Results: Fit indices suggested that three distinct factors, accounting for 32.1%, 7.0%, and 5.5% of the shared variance, provided an adequate representation of the data. However, inspection of item groupings revealed that this structure did not map onto the Depression, Anxiety, and Somatization division purportedly represented by the P3. Further, when the analysis was re-run, eliminating items that failed to meet salience criteria, a two-factor solution emerged, with Factor 1 representing a mixture of Depression and Anxiety items and Factor 2 denoting Somatization. Each of these factors correlated significantly with a subsample's assessment of pain intensity. Conclusion: Results were not congruent with the P3's suggested tripartite model of pain experience and indicate that modifications to the scale may be required.

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Men's pain experience as a function of attachment and social support

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e512142015-546 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Carol L. Wilson ◽

Mary Havers ◽

Alicia Marie Carroll ◽

Meghan Nee ◽

Geran Lorraine

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Pain Experience

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Supplemental Material for Conscious Awareness Differentially Shapes Analgesic and Hyperalgesic Pain Responses

Journal of Experimental Psychology General ◽

10.1037/xge0000759.supp ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Conscious Awareness ◽

Pain Responses

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Schmerztherapie nach thoraxchirurgischen Eingriffen

Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie up2date ◽

10.1055/a-0583-8249 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (02) ◽

pp. 155-165

Author(s):

Holger Hendrix ◽

Vladimir Kamlak ◽

Georgi Prisadov ◽

Katrin Welcker

Keyword(s):

Thoracic Surgery ◽

Pain Therapy ◽

Pain Treatment ◽

Internal Standards ◽

Pain Experience ◽

Thoracic Surgical Procedures ◽

Therapeutic Algorithm ◽

Alternative Procedures ◽

The Individual ◽

Documentation Form

The treatment of pain after thoracic surgery is a challenge and takes place in the individual clinics mostly according to clinic internal standards. It exists no currently valid S3 guideline for the treatment of acute perioperative and posttraumatic pain. For an effective pain treatment as well individual pain experience as the pain intensity of the various thoracic surgical procedures must be considered. Regular pain assessment with appropriate methods and their documentation form the basis for adequate and adapted pain therapy.There are a number of different pain therapy methods, non-medicamentous and drug-based methods, whose effectiveness is described in the literature partially different. For the treatment of acute postoperative pain after thoracic surgery, mainly drug-related procedures are used, except for physiotherapy as a non-medicamentous method. Increasingly, alternative procedures for the peridural catheter as a therapeutic gold standard in the treatment of pain after thoracic surgery are used. Their application can be integrated into a therapeutic algorithm.

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