On 17/04/2018 09:37, Brian Gaff wrote:

Incidentally has anyone here had an RF burn, that is most certainly one of
the worst pains I can recall.

Pain in a burn is good (FSVOgood).
Better not to get burned at all but a painful one is better than a numb
one that has gone deep.

Barely remembered first aid course stuff:-
It means the nerves are still intact enough to send pain messages to the
brain. A deep burn that has killed all the nerves in the surface layers
(3rd degree) doesn't hurt so much but the skin is a lot more damaged.

Anecdote :-
I remember him (the lecturer) telling us about what percentage of skin
cover each body part equaled, front of leg 10% etc adding up the whole
body only comes to 99% leading to lots of jokes about 1% rise etc.