Pain Threshold and Discrimination of Pain Intensity during Brief Exposure to Intense Noise

9 March 1962

journal article
research article
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 135 (3506) , 788-789
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.135.3506.788

Abstract

Neither pain threshold nor the capacity to discriminate intensity of mild pain was significantly altered during simultaneous stimulation by intense "white" noise. These observations indicate that the reported clinical usefulness of such auditory stimulation during painful therapeutic procedures does not result from an alteration in the capacity to perceive pain.

Keywords

NOISE
PAIN

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Suppression of Pain by Sound
Science, 1960
Auditory analgesia in dental operations
The Journal of the American Dental Association, 1959