Question

Joseph has been assisting the team doctor in his treatment of relatively minor but painful injuries for his football team. The doctor has carefully instructed Joseph to alternate between applying hot compresses and cold packs to the injured area. This treatment may be effective because both heat and cold send competing messages through the spinal cord that may temporarily block pain messages. This technique is known as

a. meditation
b. biofeedback
c. distraction
d. changing thoughts
e. creating a bottleneck

Answer 1

e. creating a bottleneck

Step-by-step explanation:

Creating a bottleneck is the nearest concept to Gate Control Theory among options of the question

"As a number of factors determine which pain messages are allowed to get through the gate and reach the brain, such as:

Strength of the pain message

Competing messages, such as touch or heat

Brain signals giving high or low priority to the pain message

A key element of the theory is the concept of a gate that allows pain signals to reach the brain when it is open, and blocks the signals when it is closed. When a quick signal from a nerve fiber can close the gate, it can keep the slower messages from getting through, resulting in less pain."

Reference: Deardorff, William. “Applying Gate Control Theory to Pain Relief.” Pain, 2019