What do you think? Who feels more pain, men or women? There is a general belief that women endure more because of the biological predisposition of childbirth, but is that true? Where do we leave the heroic wounds of men, who continue to fight despite being practically undone?
Here in Science Daily Online we will try to answer this question.
Conceptualize the pain or measure it
It is literally impossible to know what another person feels.a needle, except in oneself. Because pain is an individual perception .
What is true, and was already measured by an experiment conducted by researchers of the Stanford University, is that women report more pain in a variety of diagnoses, compared with men.
One possible explanation, not the only one, is that women are more communicative , express themselves more, explain better what they feel , and men tend to be more parcos with the words.
Another explanation would be based on data thrown by the experiment, which would reflect the problems of diagnosis and treatment of pain in women, and that refer to substantial biological differences between male and female.
In the experiment, which collected information from more than 11,000 patients, the biggest differences were in patients who presented problems in the circulatory, respiratory, digestive and musculoskeletal systems, and there were also differences in the intensity of pain according to sex, women reporting a higher point or pain on a scale from 1 to 11. A point can make the difference between sending a medication or not .
Does it hurt to be a woman? And being a man?
An explanation for the difference in pain intensity between men and women can be in hormonal factors , since the menstrual cycle usually leads to millions of women discomforts that range from something insignificant like “soreness” in the abdomen to really big pains that make it impossible to move out of bed, which is known as PMS (pre menstrual syndrome).With the rule , women feel the pain more intensely too.
On the other hand, they go more to the doctor than they do, and it is reported that in general women suffer more severe, frequent and lasting pain than men , although the threshold in them is lower than in them.
Another indicator that women feel more pain is the stress levels , which make any pain It seems worse than it is.
A curious fact : Women tend to mark many more areas of pain in the body than men, who tend to be more precise when marking a specific area.
Who can stand the longest?
Another data thrown by the experiment is the corroboration of something already known: the chronic pain are more common among women, such as fibromyalgia , which is a disorder that causes muscle aches and fatigue, which in general aggravates the perception of pain.
Women have been suffering from menstrual pains and labor pains for thousands of years without almost ever having a treatment for this, not to mention the psychological and social pains to which they have been subjected for cultural reasons.
For some researchers , this may indicate differ gums in the brains of men and women that would point to the relationship of each sex with the pain, which can cause them to "formulate" pain differently: they usually focus on the emotional aspects of pain, while they focus on physical sensations.
In addition, boys have an advantage , the GIRK2 protein, which helps them to endure better.
So, according to this, it would be women who suffer more , feel more pain for a longer and longer time frequency.Although, after all, we cannot say who hurts the most, hitting the tap or stepping on the toe.
And you, does everything hurt or are you one of those who hold? And if you are interested, we leave you here the link for another super interesting and curious article: why we remember the pain.
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