Severe pain and perceived threat can cause the brain to enter a preservation mode, inhibiting movement and signaling pain to protect the body.

“One thing in your story is, you know, it really speaks to how pain is inhibitory, right? Like when your brain is perceiving that threat and that pain, it starts to just kind of it goes into preservation mode, right? where it's like look, I'm not going to have you run the fastest for your life because I don't trust all these movements. I'm trying to figure this out. I always my analogy is like it's like that hand on the bu buzzer with family feud where the brain like whenever it feels threat it's like I'm going to hit this buzzer and I'm going to send you a pain signal. Doesn't mean you're damaged. It's just like I'm hovering and if you're really stressed or it's a really high level pain it's like I'm going to do it at first sign of trouble, right?”