During delivery, women experience tremendous pain. However, most men claim to have the pain threshold higher than women. So who is more powerful pain?
The scientists assessed the man could withstand more pain than women, because the adam often hide the pain just to look macho. Leeds Metropolitan University based study showed no gender stereotypes about their ability to withstand pain. Thus quoted from news.com.au, Friday (11/02/2012).
From the research, men tend to act calmly when injured, while women showed more sensitivity.
Scientists are researching pain, Dr Osama Tashani, mobilized 200 people UK and Libya as a research volunteer. "Traditionally, the high level of tranquility associated with men, and a high level of sensitivity associated with women," he explained.
Some of the ethnic groups represented more resilient, while others see more free to express his pain. While the reaction to the pain on the basis of gender stereotypes more visible in Libya than Britain. This suggests that gender and culture play a role in a person in dealing with the discomfort.
The participants involved in the study for two years that the procedure should be applied. Participants hands pierced with a blunt pointed object about 1 cm wide. Then put your other hand over the head with a fitted cuff to restrict blood flow. The study published in the European Journal of Pain.
Meanwhile, according to another study, an effective way to see the resilience of the pain can be done by asking the participants to follow the math test. Researchers at the University of Chicago found math anxiety can cause physical pain.
Based on the study, those who experienced high levels of anxiety during a test of math turns out activity in the brain associated with increased pain sensation. The higher the anxiety, the greater the neural activity detected. Similarly, reported in the journal PLoS One.
Roger Fillingim, PhD, associate professor in the College of Dentistry at the University of Florida, Gainesville, formerly called the research on the resilience of the pain it clear that men and women have a different experience of pain. For that study could be a reference to a doctor in treating the disease more effectively to men and women. More than that, each person should be treated based on the symptoms, and not the gender.
Source: news.com.au
