Do you stamp on your toe after stubbing it?

[breathedeepy]

Stub toe - reflex is to stamp on the stubbed toe right??

Thank you

Be funny if you stubbed your toe again doing that Shaman recreation thing...

I press down hard on it with the other foot. I wouldn't call it stamping though.

Putting pressure on the area relieves some of the pain because you have sensory receptors that are specific for pressure, and when they start sending messages to your brain it ultimately means less info about pain is getting through. That’s why people instinctively hold or rub an injured area.

Toastedstrudel I was just going to post something very much like that. It is a similar process to how TENS works.

I instinctively press the other foot down on it.

Surely every Mothers reflex upon witnessing a stubbed toe is to helpfully say "I told you to wear your slippers"
Or is that just my Mum and now me because I have become her

Oh yes, and if I bump my head, then I punch myself i the face. Medicinal.

I've never really thought about it, but now I have I realise that I do it too...how odd!

Yep I press the other foot on it - not as hard a stamp though!! That would just hurt more.

Usually I grab it impale myself on my broken nail and belt my head or other vital part of my body because I'm just clever like that