SOME ASPECTS OF TREATMENT OF PAIN BY COUNTER IRRITATION1 1Taken from a lecture demonstration given at the Tenth Biennial Congress of the Australian Physiotherapy Association, February, 1964.

We all know this old principle of relieving a sensation of pain by superimposing a different type of sensation over the same area, We do it automatically when we scratch an itch or rub a bruise. We set out to try and block the pain sensation