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

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Is Gate Control Really a Piece of the Puzzle?

Pain gate theory is a piece of it. Gate control does not explain pain and phantom limb pain because there's no foot, there's no leg. It doesn't explain pain and quadriplegics or in and we dare we even go to emotional pain or abuse,. trauma, those kind of things. So what I'm getting from that is it seems like the gate theory stuff is a reduction of something that is happening but an incomplete story. The puzzle is way better and cooler than just simple fibrous.

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