The gate control theory of pain asserts that non-painful input closes the `gates` to painful input, which prevents pain sensation from traveling to the central nervous system. Therefore, stimulation by non-noxious input is able to suppress pain. First proposed in 1965 by Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall, the theory offers a physiological explanat.....
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A theory to explain the mechanism of pain; small fibre afferent stimuli, particularly pain, entering the substantia gelatinosa can be modulated by large fibre afferent stimuli and descending spinal pathways so that their transmission to ascending spinal pathways is blocked (gated). ... Synonym: gate-control hypothesis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. a theory to explain the mechanism of pain; small-fiber afferent stimuli, particularly pain, entering the substantia gelatinosa can be modulated by large-fiber afferent stimuli and descending spinal pathways so that their transmission to ascending spinal pathways is blocked (gated). Synonyms: gate-control hypothesis &nbs.....
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A theory about pain modulation that proposes that certain cells in the spinal cord act as gates to interrupt and block some pain signals while sending others on to the brain.
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States that pain signals traveling from the body to the brain must go through a gate in the spinal cord.
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