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Coya19@aol.com · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Females may have an extra pain-regulating pathway focused on relieving pain associated with the reproductive system. One implication of this biological gender difference is that

a. men need more pain relief than women following most surgical procedures.
b. women need more pain relief tan men following most surgical procedures.
c. treatment of pain in men and women is still the same, because the psychological experience of pain is the same for men and women.
d. males and females may benefit from different kinds of medications and different kinds of pain management.

Question 2

Regarding gender differences in the experience of pain, women suffer more frequently than men from all of the following EXCEPT

a. migraine headaches.
b. arthritis.
c. menstrual cramps.
d. backache.