our muscles were hot wires of pain.

The enemy came looming around a bend in the trail and Matsuo took a hasty shot, then fled without knowing the result, ran until breath was a pain in his chest and his legs were rubbery.

If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

It is as follows: `` The usual sensitivity tests showed that the specific qualities of skin-perceptiveness ( pressure, pain, temperature ), as well as the kinesthetic sensations ( muscular feelings, feelings in the tendons and joints ), were, as such, essentially intact, although they seemed, in comparison with normal reactions, to be somewhat diminished over the entire body.

A fearful pain had come from his head, as if the water were coursing up through the blood vessels and expanding them.

The study concluded that one-on-one lessons in the Alexander Technique from registered teachers have long term benefits for patients with chronic back pain, and that six lessons followed by exercise prescription were nearly as effective as 24 lessons.

Then looking at him darkly Zeus who gathers the clouds spoke to him :' Do not sit beside me and whine, you double-faced liar. To me you are the most hateful of all gods who hold Olympos. Forever quarrelling is dear to your heart, wars and battles .… And yet I will not long endure to see you in pain, sinceyou are my child, and it was to me that your mother bore you. But were you born of some other god and proved so ruinouslong since you would have been dropped beneath the gods of the bright sky.

High-alcohol liquor, two forms of which were in the US Pharmacopoeia up until 1916 and in common use by physicians well into the 1930s, has been used in the past as an agent for dulling pain, due to the CNS depressant effects of ethyl alcohol, a notable example being the American Civil War.

Circumcision was forbidden, Iudaea province was renamed Syria Palaestina and Jews ( formally all circumcised men, Arabs too ) were banned from entering the city on pain of death.

Women were more likely to suffer from neck and shoulder pain than men.

In addition, people were motivated solely by pain and pleasure.

If there were no opportunity to increase pleasure or reduce pain, they would become inert.

Although first attested in the sense ' sharp pain caused by elves ', it is later attested denoting Neolithic flint arrow-heads, which by the 17th century seem to have been attributed in the region to elvish folk, and which were used in healing rituals, and alleged to be used by witches ( and perhaps elves ) to injure people and cattle.

Pleasure and pain were ultimately, for Epicurus, the basis for the moral distinction between good and evil.

Jordania suggested that battle trance and associated loss of fear and pain ( known as analgesia ) were designed in the course of evolution by forces of natural selection as a survival mechanism, as individual hominids were too weak to stand against the formidable African ground predators after they descended from the relatively safe trees to the ground.

The opium addicts were mostly women who were prescribed and dispensed legal opiates by physicians and pharmacist for ” female problems ,” probably mostly pain at menstruation, or white men and Chinese at the Opium dens.

* 27 % were unable to have sex due to pain

Population-based studies ( e. g. Michael, et al., 2000 ) using the SF-36 have found significant decrease in QoL dimensions, including role / physical, bodily pain, vitality and social function, results that were supported by Rothrock's ( et al., 2002 ) cross-sectional study of IC patients showing decreased physical functioning, decreased ability to function in one's normal role, decreased vitality, and depression.

On the third day after the circumcisions, when all the men of Shechem were still in pain, Simeon and Levi put them all to death by the sword and rescued their sister Dinah, and their brothers plundered the property, women, and children.

Knife symbols can be found in various cultures to symbolize all stages of life ; for example, a knife placed under the bed while giving birth is said to ease the pain, or, stuck into the headboard of a cradle, to protect the baby ; knives were included in some Anglo-Saxon burial rites, so the dead would not be defenseless in the next world.

A paper published in JAVMA ( Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association ) in 2005 showed that dogs spayed laparoscopically experienced significantly less pain ( 65 %) than those that were spayed with traditional ' open ' methods.

He said at the time that the pressures of film work were a contributing factor, along with a desperate need to ease the pain caused by gout.

Following hind-paw incision, pain thresholds and cytokine production were measured.

As we think of the long and excruciating pain it must have suffered, we are very likely to say: `` It was a bad thing that the little animal should suffer so ''.

Some hymens are so strongly developed that they cannot be torn without considerable pain to the girl and marked loss of blood.

However, in 2004, Maher concluded that " Physical treatments, such as acupuncture, backschool, hydrotherapy, lumbar supports, magnets, TENS, traction, ultrasound, Pilates therapy, Feldenkrais therapy, Alexander technique, and craniosacral therapy are either of unknown value or ineffective and so should not be considered " when treating lower back pain with an evidence-based approach.

The boxer's shorts are raised so the opponent is not allowed to hit to the groin area with intent to cause pain or injury.

Nonetheless, Eddy said a person may accept certain temporary aid from a doctor if he is in pain " so violent ," he is unable to pray for himself.

Most who seek chiropractic care do so for low back pain.

Heracles suckled so strongly that he caused Hera pain, and she pushed him away.

castes of masters and wage-workers, which is repugnant to a free and democratic society " and so " it becomes necessary for the workers to form themselves into democratic societies, with equal conditions for all members, on pain of a relapse into feudalism.

His health was problematic and in 1812 his pain became so unbearable that he was taken to Dr. Ephraim McDowell of Danville, Kentucky, who operated to remove urinary stones.

It lies behind the bad science in nature-documentary voiceovers: lions are mercy-killers of the weak and sick, mice feel no pain when cats eat them, dung beetles recycle dung to benefit the ecosystem and so on.

In the seventeenth century laudanum was recommended for pain, sleeplessness, and diarrhea by Thomas Sydenham, the renowned " father of English medicine " or " English Hippocrates ," to whom is attributed the quote, " Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

" But if I suppose that someone is in pain, then I am simply supposing that he has just the same as I have so often had.

If the pain is continuous for a long period, parts of the intact body may become sensitized, so that touching them evokes pain in the phantom limb, or phantom limb pain may accompany urination or defecation.

Local anesthetic injections into the nerves or sensitive areas of the stump may relieve pain for days, weeks or, sometimes permanently, despite the drug wearing off in a matter of hours ; and small injections of hypertonic saline into the soft tissue between vertebrae produces local pain that radiates into the phantom limb for ten minutes or so and may be followed by hours, weeks or even longer of partial or total relief from phantom pain.

In his book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, biologist Richard Dawkins grapples with the question of why pain has to be so very painful.

Infants feel pain but they lack the language needed to report it, so communicate distress by crying.

Many people fear the stigma of addiction and avoid pain treatment so as not to be prescribed addicting drugs.

It is possible for many chronic pain sufferers to become so absorbed in an activity or entertainment that the pain is no longer felt, or is greatly diminished.