Being in Love May Reduce Foot Pain?
Love is patient, love is kind, but is love an anti-pain Migraine Care Reviewmedication? When one is suffering from a serious illness, it is obvious that having support from loved ones helps one get through the rollercoaster's of pain and suffering. But, can love help with your everyday aches and pains?
According to this study it can! Medically, there is no definitive answer on why this may happen. Pain can only be measured by the person's perception of the pain. Thus there is great variation in pain from one person to another. This is what we refer to as "pain threshold." One may say they have a high pain tolerance, meaning it takes a lot before the pain "affects" them. I see this often in my clinic when I give a people injections. Some people are 100% calm, cool and collected and don't even blink when I prick them with the needle. Others are jumping for the chandelier and screaming at the top of their lungs when all I am doing is putting a relatively small needle under their skin.
So can being in love increase your pain tolerance? Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common causes of heel pain. I see several patients a day with this common foot problem and when I ask the patients to rate their pain on a scale from 1-10, I can never predict their response. There is absolutely no consistency on how much pain this problem causes. The description is always the same "It hurts the most in the morning or after rest." But since everyone perceives pain on a different threshold, not everyone rates it the same number.