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Is it normal to feel a need to shake a limb in severe pain?
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Pain and shaking: Yes - this is a common way to decrease pain. By shaking the limb you are stimulation other fibers in the limb that are non pain fibers. In the spinal cord these fibers decrease the effect of the pain fibers.
Answered 11/28/2017
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