A Woman's Pain, Is It The Same As A Man's Pain? - Dr. Pohl (VIDEO)
Dr. Pohl introduces himself and discusses if a woman's pain is different from a man's pain.
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Dr. Pohl:
Actually, women do feel pain differently. What we found is that the spots in the brain where pain is experienced, and they are diverse--I mean, there’s a number of different areas in the brain structure. It seems like the spots in women’s brains process the pain signal differently.
What we have found is that women may be less tolerant to pain. Therefore, painful stimulus, let’s say a push that’s hard enough to make a fingernail blanch, might feel like pain to a woman whereas to a man, they might feel less painful.
Having said that, women are able to tolerate longer periods of pain so that sort of probably goes back to the experience of childbirth. I mean, a woman actually is programmed, if you will, on a brain level, on a brain central nervous system level to be able to tolerate long periods of pain, but the acute experience of pain seems to be more painful in a woman than for a man.
About Dr. Mel Pohl, M.D.:
Dr. Mel Pohl, M.D., is a Board Certified Family Practitioner. He is the Vice President of Medical Affairs and the Medical Director at the Las Vegas Recovery Center (LVRC), the only private, freestanding, medically managed inpatient detoxification and addiction treatment facility in Las Vegas, Nevada.
