Weather pain , weather-related pain , or meteoropathy is a phenomenon that occurs when people with conditions such as arthritis or limb injuries admitted to feeling sick, with changes in air pressure, humidity or other weather phenomena. Scientific evidence, however, does not support the relationship between weather and rheumatic pain and concludes that it is largely or entirely due to perceptual errors such as confirmatory bias. The term is derived from the Greek meteora , celestial phenomena, and pathos , feelings, pain, suffering.
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The perceived relationship between climate change and pain has been noted since classical Roman times. Hippocrates was the first to be noticed, around 400 BC, that many diseases are related to the changing seasons. The great body of folklore about how the weather affects pain is reflected in traditional sayings and expressions, such as "pain and pain, rain," "feelings under the weather," and "ill health because of the evil wind."
The first publication of a documented change in the perception of weather-related pain was in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences in 1887. This case report describes a person with a ghost pain that concluded that "approaching a storm, dropping Air and rain pressure is associated with increased pain complaints. "Most studies that examine the relationship between weather and pain have studied people diagnosed with arthritis. After reviewing many case reports, Rentshler reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1929 that there is strong evidence that "warm weather is beneficial and changes in barometric pressure harm patients with arthritis."
Against the 1929 barometer pressure claim, in a 2016 article entitled "Do Your Sorrow, Ill Predict Rain?" atmospheric science professor Dennis Driscoll is reported as stating: "People need to be aware that the pressure changes associated with the storm are rather small." In fact, Driscoll observes that storm-related changes are similar to what a person experiences when riding an elevator in a tall building. So far, there have not been many reports of people with arthritis teetering by elevator rides in the medical literature.
A study published in the British Medical Journal in 2017 examined reports of joint or back pain from millions of physician visits between 2008 and 2012 as recorded by Medicare, the US healthcare system for the elderly. This compares to rain data recorded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, but found no correlation.
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Non-English language
The word meteoropathy is not common in English, but similar concepts and words are widespread in other specific languages. In Poland a sufferer is meteoropata , in Italian
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