April 5, 2013 | By Javier Manjarres | Facebook | Twitter

Obama’s Spends $712K To Study Ethnic Pain Differences

By JAVIER MANJARRES

In scanning through President Obama’s 2009 Recovery Act, we found another nugget of government waste, this courtesy of the University of Florida in Gainesville. The Department of Health and Human Resources funded the University with $712,744 to study whether black people had different pain tolerances than “non-Hispanic whites,” suffering from the same knee osteoarthritis.

According to the overview of the program titled, “Ethnic Differences in Responses to Pain Stimuli” that is found at the Recovery Act website, the proposal for the study is to “characterize ethnic differences in experimental pain sensitivity, endogenous pain inhibition, clinical pain and pain-related disability among older African Americans and non-Hispanic whites with knee osteoarthritis.”

It has been demonstrated that people in general have different levels of pain tolerance, but to fund a study to “determine ethnic group differences in biological, psychological and sociocultural factors” regarding “pain sensitivity” is just another example of more wasteful government spending courtesy of President Obama. Oh by the way, not one job was created with this program.

Here is what is stated in the Recovery Act for project R01 AG033906-

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In our currently funded project (R01 AG033906), we propose to:

1) characterize ethnic differences in experimental pain sensitivity, endogenous pain inhibition, clinical pain and pain-related disability among older African Americans and non-Hispanic whites with knee osteoarthritis (OA);

2) to determine ethnic group differences in biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors and their contribution to pain sensitivity, pain inhibition, and clinical pain and disability among older African Americans and non-Hispanic whites with knee OA; and

3) to determine whether the combination of laboratory measures of pain sensitivity and pain inhibition along with biological, psychological and sociocultural factors mediate ethnic group differences in clinical pain and pain-related disability among older African Americans and non-Hispanic whites –Recovery Act