What If You Experienced the Most Painful Thing?

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What's the worst pain you've experienced? A broken bone? Touching something hot? Maybe stepping on a sharp toy? Well, in this What If experiment, you'll learn what real pain feels like. What would be the most painful experience you could have? What different types of pain would you feel? And why could this pain be good for you? How does the nervous system respond to pain? Why is trigerminal neuralgia so painful?

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00:00 Worst Types of Pain
01:24 Childbirth
02:01 Kidney Stones
02:32 Toothache
02:56 Cluster Headache
03:32 Broken Femur
04:07 Burns
04:33 Appendicitis
05:00 Trigeminal Neuralgia
05:38 Tetanus
06:13 Stonefish Sting

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