Do minor cuts and scrapes objectively hurt more, or less, as you get older? Why is this so? Is this a known phenomenon, are there studies? Example: Does a paper cut hurt more, or less, at age 60 than at age 30? Could there always be a correlation with peripheral arterial disease? Any other factors?
Yes, it is widely known that even minor cuts take longer to heal and can be more serious as we age. The question is about experiencing or measuring pain.
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Please, no not ask "AI".
@cm @eobeara Yes, indeed it is widely known I think, that as we get older even minor cuts take longer to heal and can be more serious...
But I want to know about measuring pain. Not because I want pain, but more about the mechanisms that activate pain and whether those mechanisms decay, and how that decay may affects how people experience pain as they age.
I feel like this is an under-explored subject maybe. And cursory searches (using my limited vocabulary) brings up nothing.
@cm @eobeara BTW: over here, a few years ago, hospitals started having a 1-10 scale pain chart. 1 being mikd discomfort and 10 being excruciantly disabling pain.
But we know that even that will vary from person to person.
Now imagine a study like the one a doctor made throughout his life, where he cracked the knuckles on only one hand so he could study if joints cracking had any effects over a long period of time.
And again, Im not suggesting inflicting pain on anyone, but it's misterious.
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