How can the pain intensity from a tiny injury (eg peeling a bit of skin under your finger nail) be every bit as strong as a much bigger injury?
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Nerves in your body are not evenly distributed. Nerves in the limbs are denser in order to function. The hands for example are giant clusters of nerves to help your hands function. This is why people can play musical instruments because our nerves give us a lot of control over them. That said pain is also not consistently applied by the body and the brain can filter out signals we would normally interpret as pain. This is why breaking a bone hurts when it breaks but when reset your body goes into healing mode and effectively filters out the signals that issue “pain” from the broken bone while it remodels.
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