An unpleasant feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli.
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Do fish feel pain?
As a small kid, I was told that fish don't feel any pain when they bite into a fishing hook. I'm not sure if this was just something made up so I didn't feel sorry for the fishies.
It appears that ...
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Did Dave Elman contribute to an open heart surgery with hypnosis as the only anesthetica?
Colonel H.L. Elman (Dave's son): Among my father's many accomplishments, one that I treasure is the story of the man who was too weak for ANY of the many kinds of anesthesia drugs available in the ...
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Did the Mayo clinic owe a lot of it's success to the use of hypnosis in it's early days?
The prestigious Mayo Clinic resulted from the results of hypnotic anesthesia trance. A nurse named “Alice Magaw” was the nurse-anesthetist who assisted at all of the Mayo Brothers surgical ...
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Do memory foam mattresses help reduce back pain?
Memory foam and related products have claims like
TEMPUR Mattresses create a custom fit for your body, virtually eliminating painful pressure points and reducing your body’s need to toss and turn ...
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Can headaches be relieved by massaging pressure points in the hands and feet?
There are a number of sites that claim that massaging a point in the webbing between thumb and index finger can relieve headaches.
Livestrong.com:
One pressure point that may help relieve your ...
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Do red-headed people feel pain differently?
There is a long-standing belief among anaesthsetists that people with red hair need more anaesthetic. There even appears to be some evidence. to back up this widely held idea.
Recently, though, a ...
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Instant, painless amputation via high-pressure steam
Several years ago, a friend of mine who had a long career as a commercial/industrial plumber related an anecdote about a colleague who was working at a power plant. He was in the vicinity of a ...
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Does plucking the feathers from live and conscious birds cause them pain?
From: http://www.peta.org/issues/Animals-Used-for-Clothing/down-and-silk-birds-and-insects-exploited-for-fabric.aspx
Plucking birds causes them considerable pain and distress.
Is there any truth ...
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Is the “dancing squid” odori-don dead?
In these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug6pVj0Lq9w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzj95jHuPiw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqphVlp2VJI (shows what I think is the brain)
Soy sauce is ...
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Is plain white vinegar a sunburn remedy?
While searching for a remedy for sunburn pain last year, I ran across multiple references to white vinegar as effective in treating sunburn pain.
Is there any research that validates or invalidates ...
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Can you tell if you're dreaming by pinching yourself?
Just yesterday I read how Tyrion tries to figure out if he's sleeping by pinching himself. And this seems to be a commonly held truth which often comes back in tales.
But I'm not so certain. So can ...
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Does reducing pain medication decrease healing time?
Can taking less pain medication (i.e. Vicodin, Acetaminophen, Ibuprofen, etc) reduce the amount of time it takes an injury or surgery to heal?
I heard this one a few times now. One was through a ...
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Is pain tolerance lower in the morning?
Being a night owl, I was joking around with a friend of mine that dentists like to schedule morning sessions to kick up a notch on the torture factor.
However, someone mentioned that pain tolerances ...
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Does rubbing a dock leaf on a sting from a stinging nettle help to reduce pain?
I was always told this as a kid, and have been told it again recently. I'm skeptical, do they actually have any medicinal properties?
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Do either men or women have higher pain tolerance than the other?
Traditional folklore suggests women have a higher pain tolerance than men. I have seen a few sites suggesting otherwise. Naturally, plenty of anecdotal accounts of wussy men or women get tossed around ...
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Is it impossible for a human to feel pain in a dream?
I am absolutely sure that humans can feel emotions in a dream. I've experienced some of the strongest anxiety in my life during nightmares. Sometimes the emotions were strong enough to persist in the ...
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What are the plausible ways in which acupuncture might work for minor pains? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there any evidence for acupuncture being an effective treatment?
I sometimes have back pain and some numbness / pain in one leg. They're nothing to worry about and I ...
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Are lethal injections painless?
It is often claimed that lethal injections are a painless and humane method of applying the death penalty. Do lethal injections result in either no, or minimal, pain?
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Is “Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation” (TENS) effective?
I have recently become aware of TENS, but have yet to find any definitive evidence it is either a legitimate treatment or a full-blown pseudo-science.
The closest was this BBC article:
Some of ...
