Why does rubbing someone, like their back or back of the neck, calm their nerves?!


Question: Why does rubbing someone, like their back or back of the neck, calm their nerves.?
Just curious why is it when someone is upset rubbing their back, hands, leg, arm, ect tends to calm them down.?Health Question & Answer


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Because those places are where the pressure points are located. Stress pretty much lingers in these spots, and it becomes a matter of pulling the stress out, so to speak, when there is a massaging motion going on on the pressure spots.Health Question & Answer

The human spine consists of most of the cells and nerve. When people stressed up or emotional, it is the nerve that is tightened up. That is why when you are relaxing their muscle around the back, legs or arms, you are relaxing their nerve as well. And then you make them calm down.Health Question & Answer

It's warm, soothing and caring. Human touch heals, it lowers the blood pressure, soothes the nerves. Babies who are not touched do not thrive and often will die from neglect.Health Question & Answer

I think it forces the muscle tension out of their bodies, which allows them to fall into a state of relaxation.Health Question & Answer

because of the contact people need the contact to calm down.Health Question & Answer

i'm not sure...maybe it's because it distracts them and makes them take deep breaths, which just calms them down.Health Question & Answer

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because of stress!!!!!
by the way it feels so good when they do it to me in the back of my headHealth Question & Answer

yesHealth Question & Answer

cuz it feels good, duh!Health Question & Answer

Because it is soothing.? I don't really know. no one has ever done that to me before.Health Question & Answer



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