Looking at your body reduces pain

Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 11:30 in Health & Medicine

Simply looking at your body reduces pain, according to new research. The research shows that viewing your hand reduces the pain experienced when a hot object touches the skin. Furthermore, the level of pain depends on how large the hand looked -- the larger the hand the greater the effect of pain reduction.

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