A research team in Taiwan has established that feeling pain and feeling sore are different physiological sensations.
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00:00An international team led by Taiwan's top research institute, Academia Sinica,
00:04has discovered that pain and soreness are actually two different sensations.
00:10But we don't really discriminate between the two, we just have the one word, which is pain.
00:14To find that there is a physiological and neurological basis for that discrimination,
00:19and that's what's been so fascinating in working with.
00:22The researchers, led by Chen Zicheng, found that soreness comes from over-activation of nerves,
00:28responsible for body position and movement awareness, rather than from pain sensory nerves.
00:34They've coined the term sengception for the sensation of soreness, inspired by the Taiwanese daiki word for it.
00:41The findings pave the way for future research to develop treatments that can target pain and soreness individually.