In the Universal College of Reflexology class Professional Foot Reflexology Practitioner program our students learn about the meaning of pain and its important messages.
Here is an interesting article on this very subject in the latest BBC Knowledge magazine.
Pain is essential. On rare occasions, babies are born who can’t feel pain and this means they keep damaging themselves. Some bite through their own fingers and have to have their teeth removed; while learning to walk leads to falls, cuts, breaks and infections.
Life can’t be lived to the full without pain. Pain protects your body with sensors in the skin, muscles, joints and internal organs. Two types of nerves take signals to the spinal cord and then to the brain’s specialised pain-processing centres. Fast delta fibres respond to sudden stimuli and produce a sharp pain so that you act quickly to escape the hot stove or to protect the cut knee. Slow C-fibres lead to dull, long-lasting pain that can prevent you moving an injured limb or joint, or force you to rest.