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You find yourself hopping around, rubbing your toe after stubbing it on your bed in the darkA. You must never listen to your toes telling you to turn on the light while you walk around in the dark (adapted from Bill Cosby) B. Rubbing the toe is a pointless activity C. Rubbing the toe activates the fine touch and pressure receptors around the injury which blocks the pain signal from ascending at the neural relay D. Rubbing the toe leads to 'gating' of the pain signal, where descending fibers from the cortex block the pain signal
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