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Science has discovered a way to fool the brain into not sensing pain. Pain signals can be changed or even stopped in certain parts of the pain track. A “gate” system either allows or prevents the pain signal from reaching the brain.

The Gate-Control Theory of Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall is the most well studied pain modulation theory…

RECOVAPRO IN FOCUS: PAIN and INFLAMMATION

When you touch anything hot, sensory receptors in your skin send information to the spinal cord via short nerve fibres called A-delta and C nerve fibres, and then to the brain, where the pain feeling is felt. The pain is sensed after these messages are processed in the brain.

According to the gate theory, when pain impulses enter the spinal cord, they can be modified or even prevented before reaching the brain. Non-painful stimulation of the large-diameter nerve fibres, the A-beta fibres, can seal the pain gate and block pain signals from the smaller-diameter nerve fibres.

Such a non-painful stimulus might be mechanical vibration, which is how the idea of percussive vibration therapy with massage guns as a pain management modality came to be.

The Gate Control Theory and Recovapro Vibration Therapy

Vibration therapy's analgesic impact can modify pain intensity in two ways, according to the “gate control” idea.

  • To begin, the non-painful mechanical vibratory stimulus can activate the large A-beta nerve fibre, which blocks pain signals from the smaller A-delta and C nociceptive fibres, lowering or blocking pain. The impulses sent by these nerve fibres compete with each other in the substantia gelatinosa and dorsal horn, a region of the spinal cord. So that only the most important stimulus is sent to secondary neurons, which ascend to the brain through the spinothalamic tract. Vibration administered during a painful stimulus can dull or block pain impulses with big fibre signals that “shut the gate,” similar to rubbing away the pain when your knee contacts a hard item, so that fewer, if any, pain impulses reach the brain.
  • Second, vibration can provide a distraction from the pain. According to the authors of the gatecontrol theory, the gating mechanism may be influenced by memory and attention. Hence, attending to the painful stimulus increases pain, while attending to a nonpainful stimulus reduces pain.

Other types of pain management that can “shut the gate” include:

Electrical nerve stimulation applied to the skin (TENS)

Massage

Acupuncture

The use of hot and cold therapies

Topical ointments are ointments that are applied to the skin.

Cupping Therapy is a type of alternative medicine that uses su

The Bottom Line:

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