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    The document discusses pain and how it is experienced differently by different people. It states that pain is important as it indicates injury or illness, but that children and women tend to feel more pain than adults and men. It also explains that pain can be difficult to measure since it is subjective, so doctors often ask patients to describe their pain using words, numbers or facial expressions. The document concludes by noting that pain is sometimes felt in a different area than the site of internal injury or damage.

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    Lesson 6

    Pain

    Pain is important because it tells us that we are injured or ill. However, we don’t all feel pain in
    the same way. Researchers are trying to learn more about this fact. Their experiments show
    that children are more sensitive to pain than adults, and that men can tolerate more pain than
    women.

    Pain is also difficult to measure and describe. This is a problem because it is an important
    symptom and medics (medical staff) need information from patients about it. It is therefore
    common practice to give patients lists of words and ask them to say which words best describe
    three things: the type of pain they are suffering, its intensity (how bad it is ) and its frequency
    (how often they feel it).

    With some patients, such as children, words don’t work very well to describe intensity, so
    medics use smiley faces or sometimes colors. For example, blues mean a mild pain and reds
    mean severe pain. Some medics prefer a range of numbers; 0 is no pain and 10 is unbearable
    pain.

    Pain does not always show where an injury is. Internal organs, for example, do not have many
    pain receiving nerve endings, so internal injuries often cause pain in a different part of the
    body. This is called ‘referred pain’. One example of referred pain is when someone suffering a
    heart attack feels pain in their left shoulder, arm or hand.

    A.Comprehension
    Use the information in the text to complete the sentences with a, b or c.

    1 Researchers are trying to find out why .


    a people experience pain differently.
    b people feel pain.
    c pain is important to people.

    2 Experiments show that .


    a pain is worse for men than women.
    b men can take more pain than women.
    c children feel less pain than adults.

    3 Nurses need to measure a patient’s pain because .


    a pain is a problem.
    b pain is a symptom.
    c patients can’t describe it.

    4 Medics ask patients for a number to describe .


    a the kind of pain they have.
    b how bad the pain is.
    c how often they’re in pain.

    5 To describe pain, medics ask children to .


    a point to a smiley face.
    b think of some numbers.
    c say how it feels.

    6 You experience referred pain .


    a only in your internal organs.
    b long after an injury.
    c in a different place from an injury.
    answer = ABBAAC

    B.Vocabulary
    Write ‘F’ next to the sentences which are about frequency of pain.
    Write ‘T’ next to the sentences which describe types of pain (T).

    1 He says his toe is throbbing. _______F___

    2 It’s wearing off now and it’s just an occasional ache. ___T_____

    3 The shooting pains are getting worse. _____T____

    4 He complains of frequent headaches. ______T_____

    5 She has a stabbing pain in her side. _____F_____

    6 She was in constant pain, but now it’s gone. ____T____

    C.Further vocabulary practice


    Give these patients’ pain a score from 1 to 6. 1 is the lowest pain, 6 is most severe.

    a ‘It’s moderately painful when you touch it.’ _____3____

    b ‘It’s agonizing, I can’t bear it.’ _____6_____

    c ‘There is a very mild pain when I move.’ ______1_______

    d ‘It feels very sore.’ ______5____


    e ‘There’s a severe stabbing pain in my head.’ ______4_

    f ‘It’s not bad today, thank you.’______1_____

    D.Grammar

    Choose the correct option to complete the sentences.

    1 Lee won’t be at work today. He ’s ’ve broken his leg.

    2 Mrs Kitano has had a baby girl yesterday.

    3 Virginia Woolf did suffer from depression when she killed herself.

    4 I ’ve never visited a Psychiatric Unit before.

    5 She has been here during six months already.

    6 He didn’t isn’t respond to treatment yet.

    7 She has had a bath already today but she might want one later.

    8 A Did she have another episode? B Yes, she had

    E.Key words from the unit

    Complete the sentences with the words from the list.

    1 ____psychotic_____ patients can be dangerous.

    2 I worked in the hospital ___psychiatric____ unit.

    3 Tourette sufferers often have vocal ____bipolar_____ .

    4 The patient committed _____suicide_____ .

    5 Some medication has had _____side effect_____ .

    6 ____tics_____ disorder was called manic depression.

    7 Student nurses go on___psyciatris____ to learn.

    8 She had a ____traumatic_____ experience and became depressed

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