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The gate theory of pain by Patrick Wall and Robert Melzack which postulates the existence of gates or filters in the spinal cord that can modulate transmission of pain information within the nervous system.
It blocks impulses from the pain fibers, known as the Gate Theory of Pain.
[8] A useful framework for understanding some of the more specific mechanisms of pain perception is the Gate Theory of Melzack and Wall, first formulated in the 1960s.
 
 
 
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