Talking about pain... I was reminded of one of my neuroscience lectures on pain. Just thought its really amazing that at times when the 'problem ' is in one area of the body, we feel pain on another part of the body. This is especially so with visceral pain (of your internal organs) as there are no neurons specialized solely for the transmission of such pain. Pain information is usually transmitted via neurons concerned with cutaneous pain (of your skin/ surface of body).
For example,
Angina pain (from the heart muscle) is not only referred to the upper chest wall, but also to the left arm and hand.
Right prostrate pain referred to right abdominal wall, and right back of leg, calf and foot.
so you never know do you...
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