The healthcare professor states that a patient has reached pain tolerance. What further information from the professor is most accurate?
A)"The patient cannot endure a higher level of pain intensity at this point."
B)"The patient's pain tolerance is much lower because of consuming too much alcohol."
C)"The patient's pain in one place is higher because pain in multiple other sites."
D)"The patient now recognizes what is being felt is actually pain."

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Pain tolerance is the duration of time or the intensity of pain that an individual will endure before initiating overt pain responses. Consuming alcohol usually increases pain tolerance temporarily. Perceptual dominance causes pain at one site to mask pain at another site and is part of pain threshold. Pain threshold is the point at which a stimulus is perceived as pain.

The Healthcare Professor States That a Patient Has Reached Pain