Abstract
Summary
Spatial summation of pain was determined by applying contact heat to the volar side of the human forearm. Evidence indicates that summation of pain occurs for large fields as well as for small fields, for threshold pain as well as for supra-threshold pain, and for high intensity stimuli as well as for low intensity stimuli. Therefore pain summation is considered an inherent characteristic of pain sensation.
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