Explain the physiological and psychological factors that determine how someone may experience pain.

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Psychological factors exist when we experience pain and can influence how strongly we feel that pain, whether it be situational or emotionally. Attention, understanding, control, expectations, and the aversive significance can affect how we perceive pain too. The gate-control theory connects the physiological reaction and psychological experience of pain. Memories of pain influence the brain to develop something called chronic pain, this is psychological. Biology of the brain and body are purely physiological. The sociocultural influence on pain either values or disvalues the display of emotions, postural mobility or verbal expression in response to pain or injury. Some cultural groups expect an extravagant display of emotion in the presence of pain, but others value stoicism, restraint and playing down the pain. This impacts both the tolerance for pain and how people deal with pain, either by immediately rushing to a doctor or just trying to walk off something severe. This can also change based on the economic status of where a person lives. Pain control is both physiological in the fact that the body can respond to pain by releasing endorphins to control pain, and psychological in the fact that the brain can even go without recognizing the body is injured if you do not see a wound.

safety professionals realize that high-dexterity gloves result in increased safety and job performance. corporate managers know that increased safety reduces costs while increased performance enhances productivity, both of which boost the bottom line. that being said, why do we still see so many work sites where gloves are not mandated ppe or where gloves are mandated but compliance falls short of expectations? after all, the most important tools for every employee are his brains, eyes, and hands--he can't work without all three of them functioning properly.

hard hats and safety glasses top the list of required ppe at most work sites, but gloves fall to a distant third or fourth. and even when gloves are mandated, they're often found on the ground more than on employees' hands. why is that?

the reason is that lack of hand dexterity has historically made gloves too cumbersome to work in. if an employee can't adequately control the tools he or she is working with--if he can't feel the details of the metal pipe, wood beam, parcel package, machine screw, airplane wing, concrete block, pine log, steel girder, or engine part that he's handling--then the gloves themselves pose an even higher risk of injury than not wearing any gloves at all.

the lack of mandated hand protection (and the lack of compliance when it is mandated) is a direct result of traditional gloves' preventing workers from effectively and safely performing their jobs. if linda's gloves are too cumbersome to allow her to position a set of steel springs with one hand and pneumatically staple them to a mattress frame with the other hand, she's just not going to wear them. can you blame her?

in a nutshell, the lack of dexterity in gloves has prevented them from becoming universally required and accepted hand protection. and that's a sad thing, because no matter how talented you are at the job you perform, you can't work with injured hands.