As a child, you must have ‘pinched’ someone or felt it yourself as a part of child’s play. However, the sensation produced can never be called soothing for it leaves the person with discomfort.

However, it causes a pain that essentially lasts for a second or two. For example, when you are about to take an injection, the one thing that you would hear is that the pain of being injected is like that of a pinch.

No matter how minor it may be, the pain irks all. A larger version of it, namely having a pinched nerve, causes further discomfiture. A pinch nerve is created when there is too much pressure exerted on a particular nerve by either bones, muscles or cartilages.