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The Ins and Outs of Pain Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation The Ins and Outs of Pain Part A: Pain It is essential for people to experience pain for self-protection. The body reacts to pain to stop an individual from undertaking harmful activities. When an individual stubs a toe, he or she may experience a sharp pain that starts from the toe and spreads throughout the entire body. A person can realize that he or she is feeling pain due to the function of the nervous system (McGill University, 2010). According to Brannon, Feist, and Updegraff (2013), the nervous system decodes information from the five senses, processes it and triggers a body reaction such as a muscle move which causes pain. Pain is an example of sensory information that is picked by a sensory receptor at the surface of the body. The receptors then convert the physical energy such as pressure, sound, and heat to neural impulses which originate from the peripheral nervous system. These impulses travel to the spinal cord and the brain which helps a person detect pain. Part B: Treatment of Pain Physicians start the treatment of pain by identifying its dimension. A patient can experience throbs, muscle cramp, tenderness, heaviness, aching, exhaustion, sharp, shooting, splitting, or a burning sensation with different intensities (Melzack, 1987). Medical treatment is a conventional method of pain management. Physicians diagnose patients with acute pain administers different kinds of medication such as analgesic drugs which influence pain perception. For instance, patients with lower back pain can use antidepressants to alter pain perception while those with a migraine headache can use
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