The hand must deal with all kinds of challenges every day, the fingers on one hand will be flexed about 25 million times over the course of one lifetime. The hand is also very sensitive, there are a total of 17,000 touch receptors and free nerve endings in the palm for passing on sensations of pressure, movement and vibration, so its with good reason that the sense of touch is associated so strongly with the hand. The skin on your fingertips is especially sensitive as we have about five thousand touch receptors in each of our fingertips, thats more than in any other part of our body, so there is a larger brain area devoted to receiving their signals and meaning,

Whenever you touch something the brain sends a special message (an electric impulse) that travels through the nerves, which connects to the fingertips. That electric signal connects the feeling of what we touch to many parts of the brain our thinking, feeling, trust, sensory and motor system are effected as well as the parts of the brain involved in learning new movements. Studies show that we can identify thoughts and emotions through the power of touch just as well as through speech.

When we see another person being hurt, we really can feel their pain, which is why we will often turn our heads away when we see a person being hurt in a movie, it also means we instinctively know how to help another person when they are in pain.

A paper cut or pinprick will be more painful in our hands than in any other part of our body, when a sewer repeats the same action time and time again they will end up with a painful cut in exactly the same place, but a simple change of positioning the way you touch something, or which type of instrument you hold, will help heal the skin.

Even though both our hands can feel the same thing, there are some slight differences, sensitivity can vary from your right to your left, studies show for example that when a group of right handed people put both hands into ice cold water, most people took their left hand out of the water first that being the most sensitive as the right hand is stronger from being used more of the time. The right hand can trust what the left hand is doing.

The hands are the most important tool for everything we do, they take a bashing over the years

Let SEAMS give them the tender care they deserve, and be in safe hands

Karen J.

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