Health Tips - Reactivity

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Hi guys, Not only do we experience pain in our healthy body, but we react to it. It seems that the thresholds to sensation on the surface of the body do not vary greatly in different patients, but that these patients have widely different levels of reactivity. In other words, the patient who appears to feel pain easily has probably the same pain threshold as the normal but reacts to it at a much lower level of intensity. It is likely that these conclusions are also true of visceral pain. Thanks.