According to a study by UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Center and the nonprofit organization Rx Laughter watching comedy shows helped children tolerate pain for longer periods of time.
Researchers had patients watch funny classic and contemporary movies and t.v series before, during and after a standardized pain test which consisted of placing their hands in icy cold water. The results demonstrated a "significantly greater pain tolerance" while watching the comedy.
"We found that viewing funny videos increased the tolerance of pain for children, but did not change their ratings of the severity of the pain," said Dr. Margaret Stuber, a researcher in the Jonsson Cancer Center and the first author of the study. "Although they kept their hands in the water longer, they didn't describe the task as any less painful than when they weren't watching the videos. However, this may mean that it simply took longer for the pain to become severe enough to remove their hand."
We all have known that laughter is the best medicine and now the "researchers know it too.
[Source: UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center]
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