Snipers are highly trained sharpshooters to take out targets from afar and getting shot hurts a lot. Pain and snipers are like first cousins with a love hate relationship. Pain is a thing that everyone feels and it isn't something that people look forward to. Burns, bruises, cut, and broken bones are a few examples out of the many that cause pain to people. Your brain, the control center of your body and it obviously has to receive the pain signal for you to feel it. Pain that can be caused by many different things that aren't pleasant but there has to be a specific part of your brain that can read those signals for you to feel pain.
Pain is described by an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Pain, a process in which the receptors in your body pick up a painful stimulus that then take those stimuli and transfer them to the central nervous system which then transfers the signal to the brain ("How Pain Works", 2007). The nervous system which is made up of two parts: The Central Nervous System (CNS) and The Peripheral Nervous System (PNS). Pain isn't taken directly from the pain receptors to the brain; it has to go through the central nervous system. The CNS takes up the spinal cord and the brain. The receptors are connected to the spinal cord which is connected to the brain. To ensure protection of the CNS it has been entirely encased in bone with the brain being in the cranium and the spinal cord being within the vertebrae (Berkeley). The PNS which accounts for all of the nerves in your body except for the ones located in the brain and the spinal cord. The PNS is the real reason why you feel pain because the PNS acts as a communication relay between your brain and extremit...
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Each person will respond differently to the pain experience. Therefore, the individual’s attitudes, personal experiences and knowledge are also antecedents to the concept of pain. For instance, a person that has been exposed to severe pain knows the
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The most common and well described pain transmission is “gate control theory of pain”. This theory was first proposed by Melzack and Wall in 1965 whereby they used the analogy of gate to explain the inhibition of pain which exists within the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. For instance, when tissue damage occurs, substances such as prostaglandin, serotonin, histamine and bradykinin are released from the injured cell. Individual usually consume or apply pain medications such as NSAIDs whereby these medications will cause electrical nerve impulse at the end of the sensory nerve fiber via nociceptor. Nociceptor is a pain receptor that is commonly found in the skin, cornea of eye and organ of motion such as muscles and ligaments. These nerve impulses
When the sniper got shot it alters his life. "There was a small hole where the bullet had entered. On the other side there was no hole"(Liam O'Flaherty, 2). Getting shot can change a person's actions in the future and also put them in danger if not treated. Though the sniper was not shot In the heart he could still die or become paralyzed from blood loss, infection and other injuries. The writer has told us that war can never really be won and is a devastating act causing the break of relations, compunction over army's and alternate futures for everyone affected by
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Aim. The purpose of this paper is to clarify and analyze the meaning of the concept of pain. The paper will clarify the defining attributes of pain and identify the antecedents that influence the perception of pain and list the consequences of pain. It will also state the empirical referents in reference to pain.
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Measuring Pain 1. 1. Sensory - intensity, duration, threshold, tolerance, location, etc 2. 2. Neurophysiological - brainwave activity, heart rate, etc 3. 3. Emotional and motivational - anxiety, anger, depression, resentment, etc 4.
college of obstetricans in 2010, they state that the cortex is needed in order to feel pain. Another
This paper involves how the brain and neurons works. The target is to display the brain and neurons behavior by sending signals. The nervous system that sends it like a text message. This becomes clear on how we exam in the brain. The techniques show how the brain create in order for the nerves about 100 billion cells. Neurons in the brain may be the only fractions of an inch in length. How powerful the brain could be while controlling everything around in. When it’s sending it signals to different places, and the neurons have three types: afferent neurons, efferent neurons, and the interneurons. In humans we see the old part of emotions which we create memories plus our brain controls heart beating, and breathing. The cortex helps us do outside of the brain touch, feel, smell, and see. It’s also our human thinking cap which we plan our day or when we have to do something that particular day. Our neurons are like pin head. It’s important that we know how our brain and neurons play a big part in our body. There the one’s that control our motions, the way we see things. Each neuron has a job to communicate with other neurons by the brain working network among each cell. Neurons are almost like a forest where they sending chemical signals. Neurons link up but they don’t actually touch each other. The synapses separates there branches. They released 50 different neurons.
The Nervous System can be divided into two different categories, the central nervous system (CNS), and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). The CNS is made up of the brain and spinal cord, and the PNS is made up of the rest of the nerves that connect the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body. The major functions of the nervous system are sensory, integrative and motor function. The sensory function of the nervous system receives sensory receptors by detecting changes inside and outside of the body. The integrative function processes the information. Motor nerves convey information from the CNS to the body, and make the necessary response (Herlihy & Macbius, 2000).
Pain, a word that is always associated with getting hurt. The real question now is how it hurt. In life people experience many types of pain. There are two different kinds of pain; physical and mental. The physical part of pain is like falling from something, cutting your arm, or stubbing your toe. The mental part of pain is like hurting someone’s feeling from saying something harsh or doing something to them emotionally, which hurts inside. The causes and effects of physical and mental pain are very different but can be both equally devastating and even more dramatic with emotionally disturbed people.
"There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man of woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer-committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear." George Eliot (1819-80), English novelist,editor. Felis Holt, the Radical, Introduction (1866).What is pain? In the American Heritage Dictionary, pain is referred to as "an unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder." The word is rooted in Middle English, from an Old French piene, from Latin poena, meaning "penalty or pain", and from Greek pointe, meaning "penalty." Pain is a very realistic problem that many individuals face daily.