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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

To Rip Off a Band-Aid Slow or Fast?

For the study, published today in the Medical Journal of Australia, each student had two plasters applied to their upper arm, hand and ankle. The plasters were then removed using both fast and slow methods, with a randomisation process used to decide which was used first on each student. Subjects were asked to rate the pain on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being the "worst pain imaginable". Fast removal achieved an average pain score of 0.92, while slow removal was significantly more painful at 1.58.

http://bakadesuyo.com/the-perennial-debate-rip-the-band-aid-off-slo

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