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Rub or Apply Pressure Near an Injury
Provided it does not worsen the injury, rub the painful area or apply pressure near it—typically above the injury, though below can also help—to activate mechanoreceptive pathways that inhibit pain signaling.
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“oftentimes what we will do is we will rub the source of pain or the location in which we were experiencing pain. And it turns out, that's not an unuseful thing to do.”
huberman · How to Control Your Sense of Pain & Pleasure · Aug 9, 2021 · 1:35:58 · open ↗
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