Receiving a warning about a painful stimulus too early or too late can worsen the pain experience. — Whalespan
Receiving a warning about a painful stimulus too early or too late can worsen the pain experience.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“However, if they are warned just two seconds before that pain arrives, it does not help. It actually makes it worse... Similarly, if they are warned about pain that's coming two minutes before a painful stimulus is coming, that also makes it worse, because their expectation ramps up the autonomic arousal, the level of alertness is all funneled toward that negative experience that's coming.”