Why do you feel it immediately when something touches your feet, but does the pain of stubbing your toe take seconds to register?

Question

Why do you feel it immediately when something touches your feet, but does the pain of stubbing your toe take seconds to register?

In: Biology

Answer 1

You sense the act of stubbing your toe as fast as any other touch, the OUCH builds a little bit later as the internal things that got ‘insulted’ or even injured make that known, the nerves that register touch as located on the skin, your muscles may have nerves but their job is very different. I don’t know what is in tendons and cartlege but you can go for a long time before your body gets around to telling you DUDE, we’re really in a bad way here…..