Whenever breaking a bone or spraining something or things of that nature, PTs and orthopedists always say “if it doesn’t hurt it’s fine.”
What would be scenarios where pain (or lack thereof) DOESN’T properly let you know if something is fully healed or injured or not?
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Pain isn’t a good indicator of anything, really. That initial jolt to make you let go of something hot, ok, totally functional there. But some bad things don’t hurt at all, some pain is way worse than the injury would warrant, chronic pain can be excruciating and the injury is long gone.
How bad pain feels is also situational. On adrenaline you might not feel it at all, in the right setting it might feel good, and when you can’t escape it, even a “small” pain can become torture.
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