Why don’t our tongues grow like other muscles since we’re always moving them?
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I learned something interesting about my tongue after my stroke that I had a few years back. The stroke damaged my right thalamus, which affected all of the muscles on the left side of my body. Every one takes effort to move now, so I can feel every muscle on that side, because I have to work to move them. I can feel all of them, from my toes all the way to the muscles on my forehead. The weird thing is, my tongue isn’t affected at all. It doesn’t take any extra effort to move it. I don’t know what part of the brain controls the tongue, but I don’t think it’s the same part that moves your other muscles.
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