Human Pain Ranking Birth Pain Second...What's the first place?
Feb 14, 2025
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It's not a disease in itself, but it's a symptom. However, chronic pain with no cause to resolve can be considered a disease.
In the meantime, the results of a study on the ranking of pain felt by humans are published, drawing attention.
A joint research team from the University of Texas, the University of West Georgia, and the University of Vermont conducted a study on pain on about 5,000 people.
The research team asked for a pain intensity from 0 to 10.
As a result, military headache was the most severe pain with an average of 9.7 points.
Group headache is accompanied by extreme pain, bloodshot around the eyes, and symptoms such as tears, runny nose, and stuffy nose.
The burning pain in the head that lasts for hours a day appears, and common painkillers are useless.
The pain of childbirth came in second with 7.2 points.
Pancreatitis pain (7.0 points), kidney stones (6.9 points), cholelithiasis (6.3 points), gunshot wound (6.0 points), lumbar disc (5.9 points), migraine (5.4 points), fibromyalgia (5.2 points, pain in soft tissues such as tendon and ligament fascia and muscles throughout the body), fracture (5.2 points), heart attack (5.0 points), sciatic nerve pain (5.0 points), knife puncture (4.9 points), shingles (4.6 points), lumbar puncture (4.6 points), spine (4.6 points).
Regarding the results, the researchers wrote that "pain is a subjective experience, so there may be differences between individuals and environments."He explained that there may be research limitations as he responded to the questionnaire by reviving the patients' memories of their past pain. The results of the study were published in the international journal 'Headache'.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
