Some people think bones can't hurt

Literally so I was told. That a fractured ribs cannot hurt. And in general, broken bones do not hurt. Now, if the fragments of the bones get rid of the surrounding soft tissues, then something may hurt.

I suspect that this heresy came from the story about the liver, which also does not hurt.

Guys, if the liver did not hurt, then it would not be beaten on it. So? Boxers get knockouts after such blows to the body.

Of course the bones hurt. They are terribly painful with bone metastases or with various leukemias, when the bone marrow collapses, and with all sorts of similar things.

So many nerves, nerve endings and pain receptors are hidden inside the bones.

There are three sources of bone pain:

1. Bone marrow. It hurts the most. It hurts with oncology, with various blood diseases, or even for no apparent reason. We have already discussed bone marrow pain , which tortures people for several months and then passes without a trace.
2. Periosteum. She's next. Not the first, but the next after the bone marrow. It is a delicate bark on the surface of the bone that is densely laced with nerves.
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3. The bone itself. In fact, the mineralized bone itself can hurt. It has channels through which nerves travel. They hurt when the bone is damaged.

In short, this whole economy hurts a lot. Oh, here's another! Do you remember growing pains in children? There, too, my legs hurt very incomprehensibly.

What about the liver?

Usually, the story about the liver is supplemented with an amendment about the liver capsule, which supposedly hurts one for the entire liver.

These people have a poor idea of ​​the liver. They probably think it's a piece of meat wrapped in a wrapper capsule. Not. You can only tear off the liver capsule from the liver itself with meat. Did any of them gut the chicken? The liver capsule and the liver are almost one piece.

And the nerves around the blood vessels and in the biliary tract also hurt in the liver. Have you heard about biliary colic? If the bile ducts are stretched by bile, then they hurt.

In short, everything hurts.