Posted: January 27th, 2018

How the body responds to Pain : 3 Profound Facts You Need to Know

How the body responds to Pain

A client is arousing from a coma and keeps saying, “Just stop the pain.” The nurse responds based on the knowledge that the human body typically and automatically responds to pain first with attempts to:

1. Tolerate the pain
2. Decrease the perception of pain
3. Escape the source of pain
4. Divert attention from the source of pain.