why do we feel pain more when its freezing? (best answer will be scientific)?

Answer 1

Our nerves are essentially long electrical circuits, electricity flows better at lower temperatures, this means that the signals from the receptor sites are sent more frequently and at a higher rate in colder weather.
Also in warmer weather our bodies tend to go into a relaxed state trying to allow more energy to be given off and generate as much heat. While the colder weather triggers the body into action to generate heat to prevent freezing.

Answer 2

Are you familiar with the nervous system? Just in case I will explain it briefly. Your body is filled with nerve cells which are essentially like wires that transmit electricity throughout our body to the brain (I forget which part though). In between the nerves are neurotransmitters, or chemicals which essentially carry the electric impulse to the next cell. When it is cold out the electric impulses will travel just as fast but the neurotransmitters slow down .
One of the most painfull things, if you have ever noticed, is when you don't wear gloves and your fingers get frozen. It doesn't hurt then but when you warm them back up it burns like a mother ******. This is because when they are frozen the neurotransmitters don't move from one cell to the next because they are frozen. My best guess is that when you warm them up all the neurotransmitters move to the next cell at the same time opening the circuit, as if you were storing up the pain and releasing it all at once. I'm not a biologist but I took a class in high school and that makes sense to me.

Answer 3

The cold and the moisture in the air causes the various bones, muscles, tendons, etc to expand or contract in different ways (since they are different densities). Also, cold means more barometric pressure, which can senstize nerve endings, so we feel the pain more acutely.

Answer 4

Check out Reynards Syndrome.

Answer 5

"Pathophysiology: Cold exposure leads to ice crystal formation, cellular dehydration, protein denaturation, inhibition of DNA synthesis, abnormal cell wall permeability with resultant osmotic changes, damage to capillaries, and pH changes. Rewarming causes cell swelling, erythrocyte and platelet aggregation, endothelial cell damage, thrombosis, tissue edema, increased compartment space pressure, bleb formation, localized ischemia, and tissue death.

Underlying responses to these injuries include generation of oxygen free radicals, production of prostaglandins and thromboxane A2, release of proteolytic enzymes, and generalized inflammation. Tissue injury is greatest when cooling is slow, cold exposure is prolonged, rate of rewarming is slow, and, especially, when tissue is partially thawed and refreezes."

Answer 6

I think the reason we feel more pain in the cold is because we suffer in the cold and in the heat I think is more quicker.

Answer 7

you feel pain as a warning. the body is slowly shutting down, and is trying to tell you to get warm

Answer 8

when a person has aches and pains...they usually will say "its going to rain/snow"...that is because humidity and barometric pressure changes as the weather changes and our bones feel this

Answer 9

I do because I have Rhuematoid Arthritis

Answer 10

BCUS EVERYTHING IN OUR BODY STOP!!.