Sunday, November 14, 2010

How Can Some Athletes Play on Through Intense Pain?

How can some sportsmen and women, in the heat of the moment, play on through pain that would floor anyone else?


Press Release from the University of Oxford
Bert Trautmann, the Manchester City goalkeeper, famously played on through to the end of the 1956 FA Cup final - holding on for a 3-1 win - despite suffering a broken neck from a collision in the second half.

Similarly, why do some people seem to suffer long-lasting debilitating pain when others are better able to cope? Each of

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