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It's incredible the amount of people who are very quick to tell me that they have a high pain threshold but do they really? Do they know what the pain threshold even is? I suspect they don't. So what is pain threshold anyway? Mosby (2009) states the following: "The point at which a stimulus, usually one associated with pressure or temperature, activates pain receptors and produces a sensation of pain. Individuals with low pain thresholds experience pain much sooner and faster than those with higher thresholds; individuals' reactions to stimulation of pain receptors vary." Put simply, it is when there is enough stimulus to make the pain nerve fire. So the threshold required for an action potential at a synapse in a C fibre neurone. So what patients are referring to then is their pain tolerance. This is defined as: "the highest intensity of painful stimulation that a tested subject is able to tolerate." ( Farlex 2012). So the que...