In general, if you have received any kind of injury or have encountered excessive physical activity during the day, exacerbation of pain the next night is, in general, absolutely normal and, one might say, guaranteed. Previously "postponed" pain increases due to a certain "mechanism" of muscle work.
What and how does it work? Let's figure it out.
It turns out that there is a theory (classical theory, well-founded), which was developed by Robert Melzak and Patrick Wall, according to which both the painful muscles of a person and the impulse "process" the same neurons brain. Moreover, it works in the human body literally at the level of reflexes.
Let's say a person injures his finger. What does he do in this case? Most of us pinch our hand, stopping bleeding and activating the impulses of nearby muscles. Likewise, injured people try to flee. And if the injury is serious, what can come of it? That's right, problems that are dangerous to general health, and sometimes life.
How does it come out and what happens next?
So, in the same center of our brain two signals arrive simultaneously: about pain and about muscle contraction. And evolutionarily it turned out that the brain chooses for some reason the second - "muscular" - option. Therefore, those who are injured (both significant and not so) do not feel pain at all immediately.
The same is the case with intense loads - for example, when playing sports. People want to do more and more while exercising. And all because while there is neither fatigue nor pain (they will appear later), there is only euphoria.
But then night comes and everything changes. Our muscles relax, and the brain stops receiving signals from them. And then he just "switches" to pain.
Incidentally, incredibly large-scale research in the field of pain is being conducted today. And it is considered, among other things, as one of the symptoms of sarcoidosis. And the global goals of this specific scientific work are:
1. Clarification of the role of immunity in the onset and development of the disease.
2. Improving the quality and life expectancy of patients with sarcoidosis.
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