For example, they may describe a light touch as painful and deep pressure as providing a calming feeling.

Patients often present with headaches, painful cranial pressure, and neck pain early in the progression of the disease.

There was painful pressure in Felix's ears from the punishing noise.

If enough mucus and trapped air builds up, you feel painful pressure in the sinuses.

A painful pressure closed in around her throat.

The pressure on her throat, still painful, eased ever so slightly.

One of his guns dug with painful pressure into her spine.

She jumped when strong, rough fingers closed about her arm, exerting painful pressure.

Dave's hidden gun muzzle made a painful pressure on Clyde's ribs.

Sheila's hand found Swan's and gripped it with painful pressure.