Bite down on wood?!


Question: Bite down on wood!?
in movies when someone has to inflict harm on oneself or another the one getting hurt usally bites down on wood a copper rod!. Why and does it work or is it all pyshcological!. Also would it hurt that much to have a limb cut off by a chainsaw!? i think not because the adrenalen produced would render you unconsious!.Www@Answer-Health@Com


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"Also would it hurt that much to have a limb cut off by a chainsaw!? i think not because the adrenalen produced would render you unconsious!."

You stand correct, but also take consideration of different people can stand different amount of pain!. Humans can only stand pain so much though!. In your example, cutting off a limb with a chainsaw is not something someone can do without great determination or have a strong reason to do so!. I've heard of a stories of hikers who had to cut off their injured limbs to survive(for fear of getting infections)

"Why and does it work or is it all pyschological!?"
When we are in pain, our bodies become tense, our muscles become stressed, and our breathing grows heavier!. Biting on wood, a copper rod, anything really is just a method to prevent yourself from biting off or swallowing your tongue through screaming!. I think it has little to do pyschologically, but more a way to protect oneself!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Because grasping something really ahrd takes all the pain, or most of it and focuses it on that one point!. Just like a parent would say to a child "hold my hand tight" when getting a shot!.

Getting a limb cut off would hurt to a ceratin degree until all the nerve endings are cut!. Then I think your wouldnt feel it so much unless you see that it is missing!. Just like if you stab soemones head, once it hits teh brain you cant feel it anymore or at least until it hits a certain point if that makes sense!. And if it did hurt, your body may go into shock and make you pass out, so you dont feel it!. Your body and mind can handle it!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

people tend to bite down in stressful situations!. Like the one you described!. Before men were allowed in the delivery a lot of women would want a towel or sheet to bunch up and bite down on so she wouldn't scream and worry her husband!. People wear bite planes to bed to keep from grinding their teeth at night, athletes were mouthpieces (football, basketball, wrestlers, boxer)Www@Answer-Health@Com

I think it really does hurt a lot!. I think biting down on something while getting extreme pain helps a little cause its like putting the "hurt eneregy" somewhere else!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

meds in the civil war carried around a piece of wood to bite down on and a saw to cut watever needed it off!.!.!.that would suck!.!.i guess it kinds takes the pain away a littleWww@Answer-Health@Com

I think it helps take your mind off the point that is getting hit by having to focus on biting down and thinking about that!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

not if your supposed to be suckin it!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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