Science+Experiment+2

Do video games relieve pain?
 * Topic and Question:**

I will need 2 or 3 volunteers, you take an bowl of water fill it with ice cubes and cold water to make ice water. Then you have you volunteer take off his or her shoes to their bare feet. Then let them sit in an chair and put the bowl of ice water in front of them put their feet in the water but keep their heel on the ring of the bowl, and make sure not to tip the bowl over. Then let them play the video game of any kind and see if they will not even feel the pain of the ice water.

When you're doing this experiment, your going to know a lot about pain. You feel pain from your peripheral nerves, they are connected to your spinal cord. They go all around your body in your skin, muscles, joints, bones, and internal organs. So whenever you get hurt those nerves sense the pain. Then when those nerves are sensed with pain they send it to the spinal cord, because all the peripheral nerves are connected to the spinal cord. When the pain is sent to the spinal cord it goes to the area called the dorsal horn. Then its sent deep into your brain. This seems like a slow process, but it takes less or to a second. There has been times that I hurt myself I rarely even know, because lets say I'm playing football and I scrap my leg. I my not even feel it till I am done playing football, this is because I was distracted. Then when I play video games, all I'm focused on are the video games. The spinal cord is an long, thin bundle of nerves that goes throughout your body. It has nerve cells to the brain. Pain is an unpleasant feeling that you may get after, hurting yourself in any way making you spinal cord react.
 * Background Info:**

Bare feet are already cold so when you put your foot in the water it is going to be freezing. When the pain keeps on hurting it is going to your nerves, then the spinal cord, to finally your brain. Sometime after awhile your not going to be able to handle the pain anymore, and your going to have to take your foot out. Numb, red, hurting, or not. [] [] [] []

For this experiment I think video games with relieve pain when they have their foot in the water. So they should get so distracted form the video games that they shouldn't feel much pain.
 * Hypothesis:**


 * Materials:**
 * A large, flat, heavy bowl
 * Ice cubes
 * Cold water
 * Thermometer
 * 3 volunteers
 * Chair
 * Towel
 * Stopwatch
 * Any video game console (computer, ps2, X Box 360, ps3, Wii, DS, psp, X Box)
 * Video game
 * Notebook, or graph
 * Pen or pencil

1. Get all the materials, they should all be in your house. 2. Place an chair in front of a TV, that you could play your console on. 3. Place a towel in front of the chair. 4. Get your bucket or bowl, and fill it with a layer of ice cubes. 5. Then fill it with 3 inches of cold water. 6. Place it on top of your towel that you placed in front of the chair. 7. Have your stopwatch ready to start. 8. Then have your volunteer sit on the chair. 9. Then when they put their foot in the water, start the stopwatch. 10. After they take their foot out stop the, stopwatch and right done the data. 11. Next you will need to put in the game of their choose. 12. Give them the controller. 13. Have your stopwatch ready to start. 14. Then when they put their other foot in the water and start playing the game, start the stopwatch. 15. After they take their foot out stop the, stopwatch and right done the data. 16. Now test your other two volunteers. [|The experiment Is from this website]
 * Procedure:**


 * Experiment:** Do the experiment.


 * Data:** The data is on the table below.
 * People: || Without video games (sec.) || With video game (sec.) || Did the video game relive the pain? (yes or no) || Console used? || Game used? ||
 * First: || 1 min. 23 sec. || 1 min. 13 sec. || no || ps2 || pac man ||
 * Second: || 2 min. 29 sec. || 10 min. 1 sec. || yes || ps2 || pac man ||
 * Third: || 3 min. 3 sec. || 6 min. 3 sec. || yes || ps2 || pac man ||
 * Average: || 2 min. 18 sec. || 6 min. 12 sec. || yes ||


 * Conclusion:** My hypothesis was right, when they played the video game most of them got distracted. Well #2 and #3 did, but you can tell that #1 didn't get distracted at all it was worse. Well still when you had your foot in the water while playing video games you could feel the pain once in awhile, but the video games distracted you a lot. Especially #2 got distracted the most. So yes video games does relieve pain, by distracting you.