... if you need a knee replacement because of wear, you need a knee replacement, regardless of pain sensitisation or how much "better" it would make someone feel. If it isn't replaced then that pain could just get worse. Not only will not having something that's actually damaged replaced be painful, it will take an emotional and psychological toll on someone. It's basically torture to refuse to fix a structural issue for someone simply because you don't think it will significantly help their pain.
You may understand this from a medical perspective, however you don't understand what it actually feels like to have this pain. If a Dr refused to correct a physical issue for me because I'm in a lot of pain all of the time I would be so angry and probably spiral into a breakdown.
As a an academic of gender studies, I find it more likely that societal sexism has totally made the results unusable. Men are told not to cry, they don't have literally less pain. Emotional neglect frequently causes physical numbing of sensation, so this isn't a stretch at all. Science needs to be more multidisciplinary so that doctors know about these things.
Also this advocates for under treating potentially solvable problems because of the assumption that experiencing pain *more severely than most people* means they won't "feel much better." This perspective is similar to how people with high BMIs are being refused operations under the assumption that this will motivate people to get better. It's the same logic that opiates should be controlled in chronic pain patients in a way to make it almost impossible to get or not prescribe them at all. It's the same logic that turns away mentally ill people from doctors offices. Why is it a problem of medicine to come up with new ways to *not* help patients?
does this dude know anything about EDS? a lot of people with hypermobility have SI an/or hip joint issues which makes it difficult to sit for long periods of time and on hard surfaces, it has nothing to do with being sensitive
other people have commented on this already, but i don't think he's explained the pain difference between men and women very well. i'm not a doctor so i could be missing something, but how do we know that women *actually* experience more pain? like, how do we filter out that toxic masculinity thing of hiding pain? and how do we filter out medical misogyny labelling women as oversensitive? i'm not saying there's no truth to this though, i don't know enough about it, and in my own experience being a transgender man i definitely experience pain differently on male hrt than before. are there any sources on this that take sociological factors in to enough consideration?
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... if you need a knee replacement because of wear, you need a knee replacement, regardless of pain sensitisation or how much "better" it would make someone feel. If it isn't replaced then that pain could just get worse. Not only will not having something that's actually damaged replaced be painful, it will take an emotional and psychological toll on someone. It's basically torture to refuse to fix a structural issue for someone simply because you don't think it will significantly help their pain.
You may understand this from a medical perspective, however you don't understand what it actually feels like to have this pain. If a Dr refused to correct a physical issue for me because I'm in a lot of pain all of the time I would be so angry and probably spiral into a breakdown.
As a an academic of gender studies, I find it more likely that societal sexism has totally made the results unusable. Men are told not to cry, they don't have literally less pain. Emotional neglect frequently causes physical numbing of sensation, so this isn't a stretch at all. Science needs to be more multidisciplinary so that doctors know about these things.
Also this advocates for under treating potentially solvable problems because of the assumption that experiencing pain *more severely than most people* means they won't "feel much better." This perspective is similar to how people with high BMIs are being refused operations under the assumption that this will motivate people to get better. It's the same logic that opiates should be controlled in chronic pain patients in a way to make it almost impossible to get or not prescribe them at all. It's the same logic that turns away mentally ill people from doctors offices. Why is it a problem of medicine to come up with new ways to *not* help patients?
"there is something about being a female that makes you more pain sensitive"', oh my god
does this dude know anything about EDS? a lot of people with hypermobility have SI an/or hip joint issues which makes it difficult to sit for long periods of time and on hard surfaces, it has nothing to do with being sensitive
other people have commented on this already, but i don't think he's explained the pain difference between men and women very well. i'm not a doctor so i could be missing something, but how do we know that women *actually* experience more pain? like, how do we filter out that toxic masculinity thing of hiding pain? and how do we filter out medical misogyny labelling women as oversensitive? i'm not saying there's no truth to this though, i don't know enough about it, and in my own experience being a transgender man i definitely experience pain differently on male hrt than before. are there any sources on this that take sociological factors in to enough consideration?