Mike Carruthers

So people who, what I'm thinking about is, you know, people who wake up in the morning and expect their back to hurt, expect their whatever to hurt, because every day it hurts.

I often wonder, does it really hurt?

Or because you expect it to hurt, it hurts?

Yeah.

Well,

Is there a way, like, well, you know the old joke, you know, doctor, it hurts when I do this.

Well, don't do that.

I mean, that's how you stop pain is if something hurts, then you don't do it and then it doesn't hurt.

But that's not always a great plan because you can't always stop doing that.

But I wonder, is there a way that you can...

Make something that hurts hurt less, either by exposing yourself to it more, or is there any way to mitigate your own pain other than to take a pill or get a shot or whatever?

Can you explain, is it possible to, in layman's terms, like if your back hurts or your shoulder hurts or your arm hurts, not from an injury, or maybe from an injury, but it hurts, what is it that causes the hurt very granularly?

Something's going on in there.

What is it that's going on in there that is sending that signal to your brain that Jesus hurts?

But how does it cause pain?

What happens that sends the signal specifically?

So it isn't as simple as something's inflamed and it's rubbing against something else.

If I hit myself with a hammer, I can tell you why it hurt.

I hit myself with a hammer.

But when the pain is internal, two things are hitting each other.