We all experience itching, due to allergy, insects, illness or anything that irritates skin. However, we all seem to get very itchy at the top of our backs between the shoulder blades. It’s the most inaccessible area of the body. Some young folk can just about scratch it fully, but for most of us it’s difficult or impossible.
We develop ways of scratching it - back scratchers, door posts etc. I suspect it is one reason for the popularity of marriage, since a willing back scratcher usually comes as part of the wedding package.
But, why is this part of the body so prone to itchiness? i get itches in other parts of the body, but half of all itches seem to be in that unscratchable back area. I believe I am normal and I have no skin disease there. My wife shares the same problem. *
Is there a physical reason why that part of the body is prone to itchiness? Is it caused by pressure of clothing at that point, or are we more aware of itchiness in a place that we cannot reach?
*Beware of simultaneously back scratching each other, for we have discovered that it may lead to other things. The neighbours no longer speak to us, and it took hours to get all the ice cream off the lawn mower. . .