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Drilling a nail is the unpleasant-sounding but necessary & pain relieving procedure of taking a sewing needle (or other similarly sharp object) and putting a small hole in your nail to let the trapped blood out from under the finger nail.

When a severe blow to the nail happens blood vessels under the nail rupture, the heart keeps beating, sending more blood there, but with the fingernail in the way there's nowhere for that blood to go. So you feel horrible pressure & throbbing until you relieve that pressure and give that blood a 'way out'. It sounds painful, but you only go through the [i:6c0fb75086]nail[/i:6c0fb75086], which is painless, once you reach the pocket of blood, the pressure is released, you never actually go into any skin. It doesn't hurt and it makes your finger feel [b:6c0fb75086]much[/b:6c0fb75086] better!