Gate Control Theory (Ronald Melzack and Patrick D. Wall, 1965)
The quest to acquire knowledge and understanding of pain has had crucial moments in which evolution of the process has been dramatically changed, and have opened new horizons of research, understanding and treatment. When Melzack and Wall described what would come to be known as the Gate Control The...
| Autor Principal: | Acevedo González, Juan Carlos; Hospital Universitario de San Ignacio-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana |
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| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Idioma: | spa |
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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
2012
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http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/vnimedica/article/view/16164 |
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The quest to acquire knowledge and understanding of pain has had crucial moments in which evolution of the process has been dramatically changed, and have opened new horizons of research, understanding and treatment. When Melzack and Wall described what would come to be known as the Gate Control Theory they clarify basic aspects of pain development but to lead the way to further basic and clinical research studies. It has been fifty years since the original article was published in Science magazine (“Pain Mechanism: a new theory. A gate control system modulates sensory input from the skin before it evokes pain perception and response”). The paper was written during a very particular moment in scientific history and the context of two very different lives, which illustrates the incredible process that leads to scientific development. This analysis symbolize to pain science must be done not only from a purely scientific view point but from a human one as well. |
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