Ripping off Band-Aid slowly causes more pain than removing it quickly
December 14th, 2009 - 4:56 pm ICT by ANI ( 1 comment )Melbourne, December 14 (ANI): It is more painful to slowly rip off a Band-Aid than do it quickly, according to Australian researchers.
Experts from James Cook University examined person’s pain against slow and fast Band-Aid removal techniques with the help of volunteers.
Researcher Dr Carl O’Kane found that the average overall pain score for fast Band-Aid removal was 0.92, while slow Band-Aid removal scored 1.58.
Boffins further found that women had a greater pain tolerance than men but warned the findings would not be the same on people with wounds, cuts or skin allergies.
“The average overall pain scores for women were significantly lower than for men [0.91 compared to 1.64],” the Daily Telegraph quoted Dr O’Kane as saying.
“This may be due to higher pain tolerance, although men did tend to have more body hair.
“A high body hair score was, not surprisingly, associated with higher pain scores and it seemed that preconceptions about pain also had an appreciable effect,” Dr O’Kane added.
The study was published in the Medical Journal Of Australia. (ANI)
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December 15th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Actually men have a higher pain tolerance idiot. Obviously it would hurt more since men have more hair and thicker hair too. take a man with no hair, and a woman with no hair and compare it, men will have a much lower pain score. There have been studies to show tha on average men have a higher pain tolerance, also by using pain scores with a more efficient tool, here’s the article, read and weep…
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-04/cfta-hpt040903.php
Men have a higher pain tolerance. They just have more, thicker hair.