From: here@is.invalid   
      
   Musicians Don't Feel Pain Like The Rest of Us, Surprising Study   
   Reveals   
      
   It's well known that learning to play an instrument can offer benefits   
   beyond just musical ability. Indeed, research shows it's a great   
   activity for the brain - it can enhance our fine motor skills,   
   language acquisition, speech, and memory - and it can even help to   
   keep our brains younger.   
      
   After years of working with musicians and witnessing how they persist   
   in musical training despite the pain caused by performing thousands of   
   repetitive movements, I started wondering: if musical training can   
   reshape the brain in so many ways, can it also change the way   
   musicians feel pain, too?   
      
   This is the question that my colleagues and I set out to answer in our   
   new study.   
   ...   
   ...   
   After pain was induced, the musicians reported experiencing less   
   discomfort overall. And while the hand map in non-musicians' brains   
   shrank after just two days of pain, the maps in musicians' brains   
   remained unchanged - amazingly, the more hours they had trained, the   
   less pain they felt.   
      
   https://www.sciencealert.com/musicians-dont-feel-pain-like-the-r   
   st-of-us-surprising-study-reveals   
      
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