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How We Feel Pain

How We're Wired

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What Is Pain?

There are many different kinds of pain so in critical important sense and this is the evolutionary drive for pain pain warns us about danger in the environment. We feel pain when we are exposed to something that is too hot or too cold or we have a mechanical force like a pin break. That is protective pain it shares with it elements of the pain that a patient may have when they have chronic low back pain or diabetic neuropathy or post-surgical pain but mechanistically they not the same.

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