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I would have killed for one of these in 1977!
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This painkiller targets just pain detectors, and leaves other sensory nerves intact
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Accupuncturists respond identically to poking someone in the mouth with a needle and prodding them with a harmless cotton swab
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Pain is an extremely difficult subject to study, because individuals experience pain differently -- some people have a much greater tolerance for pain than others, and some people just seem to complain more.
HOW do you react when you see somebody else in pain? Most of us can empathize with someone who has been injured or is sick - we can quite easily put ourselves "in their shoes" and understand, to some extent, what they are feeling.
In November 2007, I had a longish article in Best Life Magazine on the psychology of chronic back pain.
I've got a new article on the psychology of back pain in the February issue of Best Life (the one with Jeff Gordon on the cover):