The Pain Gate
What is the pain gate and how does it affect your feelings of pain? The Pain Gate Theory suggests that we can get pain relief by using stress relief methods that do not rely on drugs. Psychologist Ronald Melzack and biologist Patrick Wall formulated our most influential theory of pain in the 1960s. The gate-control theory suggests that pain impulses pass through a part of the spinal cord, called the substantia gelatinosa, which serves as a type of gateway.
Hypnosis is a recognized medical procedure for pain relief!
This gate determines what kind of feeling we will experience. For example, if you hit your shin against a table leg, you feel pain. But, if you rub it with your hand, you seem to feel less pain.Using this theory, the reason is that, the gate in your spinal cord chooses the feeling of touch over the feeling of pain. Endorphins are produced, and you feel better.
Rubbing an injury can help it feel better.
Stress Related Pain So why does your pain feel worse when you are under emotional stress?Perhaps the answer to why psychological factors can influence pain perception, can be found in an event that occurred during World War II. It happened during the Battle of Anzio in Italy. Soldiers who were wounded during this battle needed less morphine for their wounds, than did the civilians with similar wounds. The soldiers who were wounded saw their injuries as a ticket to go home, escaping from the battlefield—and they experienced less pain than would be expected. The theory is that their brains sent messages to the substantia gelatinosa in their spinal cords, which then closed the pain gate, decreasing their pain. And endorphins (happy hormones) produced because of the prospect of returning home, also helped to decrease their pain perception. The effect the soldiers experienced, came to be known as the Anzio Effect. 
Of course decreasing pain levels is not limited to soldiers at war. You can lower your pain levels (or even get rid of chronic pain entirely) by using natural methods like hypnosis, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), acupuncture or acupressure. And the results can be permanent! Get pain relief, using these quality hypnosis programs!
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