Loving Relationships May Help Block Pain

Thinking about a loved one might help reduce physical pain, according to U.S. researchers, who said their findings show the importance of social relationships and of staying emotionally connected.

The University of California, Los Angeles, study included 25 young women who'd been in a good relationship with a boyfriend for more than six months. Moderately painful heat was applied to the women's forearms as they looked at photos of their boyfriend, a stranger and a chair.

"When the women were just looking at pictures of their partner, they actually reported less pain to heat stimuli than when they were looking at pictures of an object or pictures of a stranger," study co-author Naomi Eisenberger, an assistant professor of psychology and director of UCLA's Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, said in a news release from the Association for Psychological Science. "Thus, the mere reminder of one's partner through a simple photograph was capable of reducing pain."

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