Descriptive Essay About Pain

1. It is important that we take into consideration, areas other than physical pain and have an holistic approach. Pain is whatever the person who is suffering it feels it to be. Physical pain can be experienced as a result of disease or injury, or some other form of bodily distress. For example childbirth. Although not associated with injury or disease, but can be an extremely painful experience. Pain can also be social, emotional and spiritual as well as just physical.

I sat there in my room with tears flowing down my blush pink cheeks. Wondering what was wrong with me, as a salty tear ran along my dried out chapped lips. I thought to myself,” Why am I so miserable? What did I do to deserve this? How am I going to escape this life?” I started to ponder that this was the end of my life, this is how I was going to be, sorrowful. At the lowest point of my life, mother came barging through the door with the look of cavernous concern on her face. She knew that it was time for something to be done, whether I agreed or not.

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.

It’s not about the pain that will come, but about the will to do it and how well you will do it even if it may be painful.

Some point throughout our lives, we have experienced temporary pain in order to reach a more rewarding future. This pain can come in numerous forms for each individual, some physical pain, others mental or emotional pain, and some being a combination of the various types of pain. Whichever form of temporary pain an individual has, it is an obligation to be successful. I would venture to say physical pain is my dominant type of temporary pain. Temporary physical pain is something I have struggled with endless times in my softball career, just so I could play another game; this was the pain I I subjected myself to in order to keep playing the game I love. I realized after I fractured my hip during a game, too much pain took a lasting toll on my body. After the numerous doctor visits, tests, and X-rays, the doctors prescribed medication

One of the most physically painful days in my entire life was March 10th 2015, it was the day I found out I had appendicitis. That morning I woke up to my lower right side hurting pretty bad and throughout that day it continued to get worse. I wasn’t sure what was wrong at the time and my parents thought it may have been my appendix, so I looked up the symptoms I had on the internet which came up with appendicitis. Needless to say that was absolutely terrifying. After many hours in the Emergency Room, lots of blood work, and a CT scan, I did indeed have appendicitis and would need to have surgery that night.

Pain is an inevitable feeling that hurts humans greatly. There are many different types of pain such as mental, physical, and emotional pain. The most known type out of these pain is physical pain. Although it is one of the worst types of feelings, it is a very human feeling that is composed of the human condition. Pain comes in often in the book. Travis was hanging out with Natalie and was jumping off bridges for fun. One of the times he jumped, he hit the water completely flat on his left side, hitting cement in the process. He cracked four of his ribs and bruised the entire left side of his body. The next example pain involves Travis but he is not the one in pain, he actually inflicts it. While he is in his basketball game, his opponent inflicts taunts and trash talked him during the entire game. Travis realized he had enough of the trash talking so he decided to punch his opponent in the face. He punched him in the face so heard that the guy had to be hospitalized. This next example is pretty harsh. While playing pickup basketball with Travis, Creature was doing really well and started to trash talk his opponent during the game. His opponent was a gang member and he had a pocket knife on him. So, the gang member had enough and mid-way through the game, he stabbed Creature three times, leaving him in near death. Creature would eventually die from the

Jacob Bronowski once said, “The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through, which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men” (qtd. in “Bronowski.”). He elaborates that wanting someone to feel agony is immoral. Society frowns upon obliterating another person’s reputation for self-benefit. Most people characterize hurt as physical soreness, but to completely understand how the word has evolved it helps to look at the etymology and the diverse definitions that exist in economics, sports, and psychology.

The most important factor is that without pain, you can never be truly

Millions of people suffer with chronic pain; making it the top reason people go see the doctor. With a price tag of at least $635 billion a year, that’s more than cancer, heart disease and diabetes combined. While powerful painkillers help many folks cope, many people don’t want to have to rely on a bottle of pills for the rest of their life.

Although, “The medical model has imposed a discourse of pain that that is always organic in nature and always meaningless. So strong is this discourse that all possible alternative pain narratives have been silenced.” The lecturer say that pain should not be explained only in term Cartesian model; Pain should rather be view in the concept of individual or in the concept of culture therefore pain is not objective. I agree that pain should be

Pain is defined as, “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience arising from an actual or potential issue damage” (Fink, 2000, p. 236). As of 2016, this is the most current definition of pain because it addresses pain as being subjective, but there is also an understanding that there are biological mechanisms involved that

Pain assessment – finding out client’s pain coping mechanisms when applying pressure to the tissue and the client tells you that it feels good this tells me the therapist it is having an analgesic effect. This client may suffer a harmful pain indicated by a muscle contraction or the male pushing against the movement that the therapist is applying, so it’s important for client to be vocal and tell you when it hurts. When assessing pain, try to determine as accurately as possible which structure is affected whether the tissue is healthy enough to receive massage is to apply slow pressure to the area with your thumb. If the pain subsides within 10 seconds, massage is fine; if pain increases the situation is too acute and you should implement protocols

Pain is something that connects all of us. From birth to death we can identify with each other the idea and arguably the perception of it. We all know we experience it, but what is more important is how we all perceive it. It is known that there are people out there with a ‘high’ pain tolerance and there are also ones out there with a ‘low’ pain tolerance, but what is different between them? We also know that pain is an objective response to certain stimuli, there are neurons that sense and feel pain and there are nerve impulses that send these “painful” messages to the brain. What we don’t know is where the pain

A sharp pain stings into my elbow crawling up to my shoulder as I land on the black wood floors at the bottom of the stairs. My hip feels as it has been dunked in boiling water. I feel a deep firey pain swirl around my head making eyes clouded with black fog. I bite my teeth hard onto my lip to hold back my tears of pain. I put my arms under myself to hold myself up and I look back up to my father at the height of the stairs. My father slams the door shut with all his strength. The sound echoes throughout my room in the basement. I fall down onto the hard floor as a tear finds its way down my flushed cheek. My mind goes blank as my vision disappears.