So, there are pain nerves, right? Different from the movement nerves. Normally you want to have functional pain nerves so they can alert your brain to an injury. If someone has, say, arthritis, or a bad joint or bone injury 30 years ago that has long since healed, those nerves are just sounding the alarm 24/7 even though there’s nothing to be done about it. So, since that pain isn’t giving you any new information you can use to help take care of your body, and is actively impeding your life, why not just remove the pain nerves, or cut them off from the nervous system? They are useless at that point for actually reporting things that would impede the mechanical function of that area, so getting rid of them would be a net benefit.
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A very simple answer here..
Simply if nerves are removed it can cause a whole new set of problems! Doctors are trained to take care of the problem at hand not to create new problems.
A Doctor’s Oath
Primum non nocere – First, Do no Harm!
Not to mention if nerves are removed this can cause harm because you can hurt yourself badly and in theory you may never know it. Until it’s to late that is..
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