What causes that strange feeling when your foot falls asleep?
Here’s a link to MSNBC where it’s explained.
“Pins and needles” or “paresthesia” is also called “formication,” the feeling that your skin is crawling with ants.
cecil sez:
'Trivial Pursuit–let me tell you, there’s the story of my life. Anway, forget that “feedback device for self-protection” stuff. The
numbness you’re talking about is called neurapraxia, and it usually occurs when some major nerve gets compressed between a
bone and some other hard object, such as a table or another bone. Nerves that are particularly vulnerable to this include the
ulnar nerve, which runs through the funny-bone channel in your elbow, and the peroneal nerve, which runs through a similar
channel at the top of the fibula near the knee. ’
Well I’ll be cowkicked. Call for the Moderator! Can we move this to the Pit, please? There are ladies present.