More Benefits from Planting Trees (12-13-23)
Gungormus and colleagues identified an intriguing implication of planting trees, literally. They share that “Sensory stimulation has shown the capacity to modulate pain mechanisms. . . . A single-group, pretest-posttest clinical trial was used. . . . healthy adults performed an afforestation activity for 90 minutes. . . . results showed significant reductions in the cold pain intensity at the moment of detection . . . mechanical pain sensitivity . . . and increases in the thresholds of pressure pain detection . . . and tolerance. . . .