So say you just been hit by a car and it snaps your ankle or your shin gets fractured or you’re being chased and you get your abdomen hurt or cut. How does adrenaline even let you just get up and go when under normal circumstances your body / brain would refuse to let you do anything with that part of the body.
What Im more specifically asking is how dose your adrenaline make debilitating injuries non debilitating for a short period of time, is there some biomechanical thing that happens or is it just as simple as your brain just ignoring the fact that it’s debilitating and should stop you instantly.
And what in saying is It doesn’t make sense how when you get an injury like what I said before with your ankle or shin or any vital biomechnical group that helps with movement that you can continue on as if it were still in perfect or near similar condition when you should instantly move differently and or adapt to what injuries you’ve sustained instead of just for example getting up from a bike crash and walking for a few seconds before collapsing or running away before falling down afterwards because you broke something in your legs.
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Your body doesn’t like to do things that will hurt it long term, so that’s why pain receptors exist in your muscles, your skin, and your organs. They work by acting like Lego bricks, pretty much when a certain chemical is released into your body, that chemical snaps to the receptor like Lego, which the receptor takes as the command to send the pain signal to your brain. This is how most feelings you precive work, just different chemicals attaching to different receptors in different concentrations.
Adrenaline does a lot of things, because it deploys when your body detects a stressful situation. You can think of it like nitrous for a car, or overclocking your body.
For pain sensation, adrenaline connects to the pain receptors for longer then the pain chemicals, effectively reducing the amount of points the pain chemical can latch onto, reducing the overall amount of pain feeling. So, the more adrenaline in the body, the less pain you will feel.
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