SciShow | Does Ripping Off a Bandage Hurt Less?

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Episode Title: Does Ripping Off a Bandage Hurt Less?
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Description: Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try out Brilliant’s Daily Challenges. The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. To peel slowly or just rip it off, what is the best way to take off an adhesive bandage? One study found some interesting results. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman. Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/01/finding-a-language-for-pain/512615/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb03379.x https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2009/191/11/fast-versus-slow-bandaid-removal-randomised-trial http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170110-why-pain-is-so-hard-to-measure---and-treat https://theconversation.com/unpacking-pain-what-causes-it-and-why-its-hard-to-measure-108429 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/02/the-neuroscience-of-pain https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20948532 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4589930/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25545856 https://whyy.org/segments/reassessing-the-assessment-of-pain-how-the-numeric-scale-became-so-popular-in-health-care/ Images https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wong_Baker_Scale.sr.JPG#/media/File:Wong_Baker_Scale.sr.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Children%27s_pain_scale.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FM-Pressure_Pain_Pattern.jpg


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