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Using the gate control theory of pain modulation to explain why applying touch or other nonpainful stimulus to the ache site of the body can reduce pain feeling?
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the gate control theory states that peripheral nerve fibers carrying pain to the spinal cord can have their input modified at the spinal cord level before transmission to the brain. synapses found in the dorsal horns acts as gates that close to keep impulses from reaching brain or open to allow impulse to pass. small diameter fibers are the ones carrying pain impulses while large diameter fibers carry nonpainful impulses. applying touch to area of pain decreases pain because touch stimulates the large fiber diameters which in turn closes the 'gate'
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