• Question: why do you get pins and needels???

    Asked by siobhanb to Jen, Jill, Mel, Phil, Stef on 18 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Stefan Piatek

      Stefan Piatek answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      Hey, I think I tried to answer this in the chat but let’s try again. It’s when you don’t get enough blood to a part of your body, your nerves go to sleep because they’re not getting as much oxygen as they would like. When you then start to move again, suddenly they’re overloaded with so much information that they start to hurt!

      It’s all about having pressure squeezing the blood out of the place to begin with

    • Photo: Jennifer Paxton

      Jennifer Paxton answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      Good answer Stefan – I remember asking this very same question when I was younger:-)

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