The Role of Beliefs in Pain

UCL lecturer Stephanie Koch explains why feeling pain is not necessarily a bad thing. A group of patients who are studied actually by another group at UCL and they don't feel pain. They have a genetic mutation within their pain fibers, within the skin. And this means they don't respond to pain. Patients rarely live beyond the ages of 20, 30 because they'll burn themselves and not treat the burn as they don't realize they have it. It becomes infected. They'll break a limb and not realize and get sephysemia. If you think about any time that you felt pain throughout the day, you then take more care to take care of your body. So there is kind