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Adriaan Louw: Understanding Pain, What Factors Influence It and How We Can Manage It | EP 406

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Pain Gate Theory Malarkey - I Love Your Analogies

In 1965, Mel Zuckenball gave us gate control and was one of those fundamental shifts in our understanding of pain. But you need to understand today that we are now what 50 plus years beyond that 57 years later. The effectiveness of movement in pain is not stimulating some fibers as closing a gate. That is so 1965. The 2022 answer is the it turns on your brain. It turns on the chemicals, endorphins and kefland serotonin, the happy juices and just says, you know what, we're good. We're going to calm the system and move.

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