Studies into how Pain and Breathing are connected could lead to safer pain Drugs

Posted by News-Dog on Saturday December 18, 2021 @06:39AM
from the text.npr.org dept.

https://text.npr.org/1065312081

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Re:Studies into how Pain and Breathing are connected could l... by Tamarini on Saturday December 18, 2021 @07:12AM (#29603904)

Interesting finding.

Musing: Surely the link between breathing and emotion is also functional rather than merely a coincidence. Breathing heavily when angry, say, prepares the body for the potential exertion of a fight.

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Re:Studies into how Pain and Breathing are connected could l... by News-Dog on Saturday December 18, 2021 @07:33AM (#29604011)

It has always amused me that ED's hand-out Opioids (Respiratory and Cardiac Depressors) like candy for chest-pain.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid>

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