Concept information
Preferred term
multimodal interactions: pain-touch
Definition
- While injecting local anesthetic into a patient's gum, the dentist may grab the patient's cheek and shake it with his or her other hand. This greatly reduces the pain of the injection. [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Multimodal Interactions: Pain-Touch]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/multimodal_interactions:_pain-touch
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