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A member asked:
Can you have little pain and still have a fracture of the humorous? i have some pain but it's more annoying then excruciating
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Very unlikely, most: pain is soft tissue, not bone. Even with bone injuries, most of the pain is from periosteum, the tissue membrane layer over bone cortex which has pain nerves, bone forming (osteoblast) and bone destroying (osteoclast) cells. Study: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periosteum. Bleeding within or under the periosteum can mimic severe pain of bone fracture.
Answered 5/3/2015
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