However, simply witnessing pain was not enough to stimulate the pain centres that register the actual physical sensation of hurt.
"The pain is not gone, but it helps me cope with it, " she said.
The fact that a placebo can lessen subjective measures of pain is not new.
But our pain is not just boredom, uncertainty or even the apparent lack of progress.
Critics of Brazil's stance reckon that even the fiscal pain will not save the real.
But it is making some people worry that the pain is not being shared evenly between the generations.
The pain is not over for Merrill but the risk of further big write-downs has been considerably reduced.
But most back surgeries--and back surgery devices--exist to ease pain, not save lives.
Pain is not distributed equally in the aftermath of a disaster or crisis.
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That seems like a lot of pain for not much gain.
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If global house prices are as correlated on the way down as they were on the way up, the pain will not be confined to America.
The first podiatrist Ms. Ngo saw advised against surgery, saying she should only do it if she suffered from a lot of pain, not for cosmetic reasons.
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Defenders of the devices are likely to argue that the stents are used to treat chest pain, not to prevent death, so the study's results should not have a big effect.
She said a small scale trial of the supplement in the UK found that it had a small beneficial impact on patients who were in mild pain - but not those in severe pain.
She sought out the good doctor around 1990, at a time when he was only accepting patients into his program that would be receptive to the notion that their pain was not due to structural abnormalities.
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First, pain is not a particularly significant factor in leading people to ask for death: in the Netherlands, only 5% of requests for assisted suicide or euthanasia come from those who described themselves as being in unbearable pain.
It is hard to think about 20 six- and seven-year-olds and what happened to them on Friday and imagine that, in a few weeks or a few months, that pain would not still be incredibly intense and present.
The claims have highlighted cases in which families have said their children have received palliative care - treatment to relieve pain but not cure, which is often given to terminally ill patients - when they believed they could have recovered.
It also found that his pain management was not "reasonable or consistent with guidelines".
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Physical pain warns us not to do something, walk on a broken ankle for instance.
He was humiliated and in pain but tried not to cry while they were waiting.
He said he had put Ms Doherty's family through more pain by pleading not guilty to the murder.
"It's just sore, not pain, sore and stiffness, " Anthony said in a crowded corridor outside New York's locker room.
Billy McNeely of the Northwest Territories told local media he had suffered itching and minor pain but did not know the blade was still embedded.
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Experts in pain management know not to worry, but run-of-the-mill M.
In that sense, you could say the OBR does agree with Ed Miliband: we have had quite a lot of pain, with not very much gain.
This hurt, it hurt terribly, yet when he tried to locate the source of the pain he could not: it came, as he knew, only from himself.
There are those among us who are like teenagers, wanting to make the easy choice and avoid the pain today, not worrying about the consequences down the road.
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