If you do that multiple times in a short period of time, that's called temporal summation. And then while you're there, this is where you then bring in situations where you've injured tissue and you have inflammation. And so now you have within the area a change in the chemical environment. So they're more excited, but not necessarily firing that threshold,. But all you might need to do is you've changed the resting membrane potential.
In this episode, Dr Matt and Dr Mike discuss how the nervous system allows us to walk, talk, smell, taste, hear, and feel!
This episode is about the electrical and chemical signals that the body sends called action potentials!
For a video on this topic we suggest that you watch: Action Potentials
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