British researchers said the self-touch can reduce pain

When you're not careful hand on the stove and burned immediately after the touch with the other hand, sometimes even the pain disappeared. This is valid and rationale? According to foreign media reports on September 24, United States, "Current Biology" magazine published in the British researchers unveiled a new study to complete this secret. Self-touch can make the brain's "body image" reset, and thus help to reduce or eliminate pain.

  This "Zimo pain relief" approach may sound a bit weird. However, University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience 马乔林卡默 Adams said, "self-touching" may become a new method of treating pain.

  The key is the brain's "body image", that is the brain of the human body and its specific location in a blueprint. Camas, said studies have shown that the brain "Body Image" will be changes over time, as we will be on at different times in different parts of the body and change everything.

  Researchers have found that "phantom limb pain" and brain "body image" directly related. One theory is that all amputees have a "phantom limb pain" because the brain's "body image" and the actual occurrence of dislocation, that is, the brain is still feeling physically remains intact. Once the brain "body image" due to refresh, it will reduce phantom limb pain.

  Camas that physical pain is not only sent a signal to the brain, pain, physical status will be based on the description of the brain case proper regulation in the brain. In fact, sometimes we can fool the brain, let a false impression. For example, the researchers had tested the index finger and ring finger will be placed in hot water, and the middle finger into the ice water and the results tested by a burning sense of feel the middle finger. Tested will come from the water after the fingers, rub each others hands, while others touched the hand of other test takers.
The results showed that with one hand touching the three fingers three fingers the other hand, 64% would reduce the pain. Camas said the two hands touching each other will help to form a coherent "body image", and thus reduce pain.

  Oregon Health and Science University, 贝思达纳尔 professor, said the new study shows that we can creatively thinking, understanding the brain by changing the treatment of pain. Let the brain that something is true, we can achieve "trick" the brain, the purpose of pain relief.

  Doctors have been using the "mirror therapy" to help people with phantom limb pain in amputees reconstruction of the brain's "body image", and then relieve phantom limb pain.