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Pain signals to the body that something is wrong and that it needs to either ch ange direction or stop what

it's doing. Different types of pain ta e different a mounts of time to travel from the site of pain, up the spinal cord, and to the b rain. For example, pains that move quic ly to the brain are experienced as sharp , stabbing pains while slower moving pains are experienced as throbbing or achin g. No one can explain exactly why people have different pain tolerance levels, b ut some speculate that it's because of how much you thin about being in pain.

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