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1 Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Sichuan, China 2 Rehabilitation Medicine and Engineering Key Laboratory of Luzhou, Luzhou, China The final, formatted version of the article will ...

When you strain your back or burn your arm, receptor cells send messages along your nerve pathways to your brain. This results in a feeling of pain, a signal from your body that you must tend to it; ...