The Magic of Touch

Most of us love to get a hug or be touched. Here are a few amazing facts about the magic of the sense of touch that we all seem to need.

There are 3,000 nerve endings for touch in the fingertips. It’s a fact that women have smaller fingers than men (most anyway!), and people with daintier digits feel things more, according to one study. They speculate that it might be because smaller fingertips have more closely spaced nerve endings. The fingers, along with the tongue and tips, are the most sensitive body parts. The torso is …read more