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Once, when I had a local anaesthetic injection at the dentist, he told me to take deep breaths and wiggle my toes. Anyone know why he would ask me to do that?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.As a student nurse (many years ago) I was taught by qualified nurses to give injections and most of them asked the patients to wiggle their toes during the procedure, when I questioned why this was done I was told that it was just a distraction. Very rarely do I have to give injections now, but I still ask patients to do this!