Consequences of Losing The Sense of Touch

Everyone has the common five senses; taste, smell, touch, hear ,and sight but there’s a sixth one called proprioception. Meaning that one can feel one’s body as one’s own. She had lost her proprioception, and couldn’t feel anything in her muscles or joints. Sacks helped her regain her trust while walking;

Often, we do not realize just how important our taste and smell senses are to every day life. We go about our day and do the normal human thing. We sleep, eat, shower, get dressed, go to school, work, etc. What if our sense of taste and smell were taken away? How would it change these every day routines? If there were a house fire while we were sleeping and we could not smell the smoke, what would happen? What if we could not taste or smell the food we were eating? What if we could not smell if our bodies were clean when we showered? As a nurse, what if I could not smell a foul odor in regards to urine or

We as a human population tend to forget that no matter how much we domesticate animals they will always have some primal traits that they will never loose. Even though they never loose these traits doesn’t mean that we need to assume they do not have feels of survival and pain. We also know that the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed--as a robot might be artificially constructed--to mimic the pain behavior of humans. The nervous systems of animals evolved as our own did, and in fact the evolutionary history of human beings and other animals, especially mammals, did not diverge until the central features of our nervous systems were already in existence. A capacity to feel pain obviously enhances a species ' prospects for survival, since it causes members of the species to avoid sources of injury. It is surely unreasonable to suppose that nervous systems that are virtually identical physiologically, have a common origin and a common evolutionary function, and result

To most people, pain is a nuisance, but to others pain controls their life. The feeling discomforts us in ways that can sometimes seem almost imaginable. These feelings can lead to many different side effects if not dealt with or diagnosed. These effects can include depression, anxiety, and incredible amount of stress. The truth about pain is that it is vital to our existence. Without the nervous system responding to pain, we would have no idea if we were touching a hot stove, being stuck by a porcupine’s needles, or something else that could leave a lasting effect upon our bodies without us even knowing anything about it.

To most people, pain is a nuisance. But to others, pain controls their life. The feeling discomforts us in ways that can sometimes seem almost imaginable. These feelings can lead to many different side effects if not dealt with or diagnosed. These effects can include depression, anxiety, and incredible amounts of stress. The truth about pain is that it is vital to our existence. Without the nervous system responding to pain, we would have no idea if we were touching a hot stove, being stuck by a porcupine's needles, or something else that could leave a lasting effect upon our bodies without us even knowing anything about it. This warning system helps to alert us when there is

Some of the senses that are vital during the growth of the child are: hearing, vision, smelling and tasting, ability to speak and feeling pain; they are the basic improvements in the child’s mental growth, they help the child in the perception of the general occurrences in the world around the child. After the child have developed the basic senses to the major aspects of life that is when they will be able to develop permanent images of objects even if they are not there at the moment. The sensorimotor nerves of a child develops as the child make primitive movements, these improves the reflex response of a child (Piaget, & Inhelder, 2010).

To begin with, fetus can’t feel pain because the cortex isn’t functional until around the 26th week. When the fetus is fully functional it is usually after an abortion is performed.There also isn’t any scientific information that the fetus experiences pain. According to Stuart Derbyshire, PhD, Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, England, stated that, “Biological development has not occurred to help support pain experience.

An important part of life is the capability to feel pain. Pain allows individuals a warning system when something is wrong. Without pain, there would be no warning system other than noticing we are injured using our 5 senses. The issue with just relying on senses to determine when we are hurt is that the elapsed time taken to notice may have been too much to fix the issue. As a species, we need pain to alert us of injures and prevent them from killing us. There are two nerves in our body that signal pain. One nerve send a signal to the brain to alert us that something is wrong and the second nerve signals the start or stop of the pain.

(Box 35-2, page 760) While different parts of the book described different aspects of touch as therapy, the general statement is that touch is beneficial to everyone. This book is written by Canadian doctors and nurses and has had all of its facts checked and approved before publication so I feel that as a resource I can count on this book to be a reliable source of information. As it is a textbook for nursing students, the intended audience is primarily those studying nursing. With that in mind, many people would not have access to this resource for general inquires.

Though our sensory organs may be working fine, environmental influences may distort our interpretation of the data the organ is sending to us. For example, we could look down a street and not see anyone and think it is safe to walk down that street, but someone could be behind a tree or other object. We do not always interpret sensory data correctly no matter what sensory organ we are using. That is the most important reason we should be aware that we may not always rely on sensory information. Our senses are who we are, without them we are left to isolation and our ability to think and learn due to lack of experience. Senses are our connection from the physical world into the realm of our mind. “There is nothing in the mind unless it is first in the senses” (Kirby &

When the times are tough with hard work, friends can help you get by and keep you going. Of Mice and Men is a good example of that. Friendship and isolation come from two different types of people. The people who have friends tend to do better than the people who have nobody. “People like us are the loneliest.

Chronic pain can effect nearly every aspect of your life and prevent you from enjoying the activities - and even the people that you once did. It is difficult for people to understand how hard it is to live with chronic pain. Those who deal with daily pain are more likely to become short-tempered and impatient, irritable and down-right cranky - with good reason. Chronic pain wears you down! It drains your energy and can

What would it be like to not be able to hear, see, touch, taste and smell? That is the question that scientists have been trying to answer with Sensory Deprivation experiments throughout the years. “Sensory deprivation is the deliberate removal of stimuli from one or more of the senses,” (Hanchett 1). Sensory Deprivation can be scary. Losing all of your senses and the idea of the material world not being at your fingers for just a second is a frightening thought to most. We all depend on our senses to keep us alive. We can look and see if a car is

This essay discusses the importance of our touch receptors and a component of human exchange; when for once we give our trust to the person that is escorting us through the dark room and that individual becomes our eyes