Watching Funny Shows Helps Children Tolerate Pain For Longer Periods

Watching comedy shows helped children tolerate pain for longer periods of time, suggesting that humorous distraction could be used in clinical settings to help children and adolescents better handle painful procedures, according to a study which teamed UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center with the nonprofit organization Rx Laughter?. Laughter has long been viewed as good medicine. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Pain / Anesthetics on October 25th, 2007