Wall-Melzack model of pain info

  • Mechanism
    • Acute pain activates inhibitory after a while
    • Blunting that kind of pain
    • Slow pain inhibits that inhibitory, allow it to constantly signal to the brain
  • Application
    • Using acute pain to mask slow pain ^730939
    • Electrode treatments turning off chronic pain

Pain perception

  • Subjectivity of pain interpretation ^e0ef04
  • Affects painkiller amount ^bf40ca