Why can some pain be mitigated through pressure?

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For example a sore that stings when touch or pushed but if you press hard enough the pain will go away, logically that’d make it hurt worse, not vice versa

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Anonymous 0 Comments

The gate control theory of pain. If you overstimulate certain nerve fibres, for example by rubbing a wound, it will overwhelm the pain stimulus that is entering the spinal cord at the same level and block it.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Imagine you have two people talking to you. Sometimes it’s hard to hear them both unless they go one at a time.

Anonymous 0 Comments

The sensations of touch and pain are handled by different nerve fibers. If you get a lot of signals going through one set, it can inhibit the other set.