...upon definitions of pain and distinctions between acute and chronic pain. Pain has been defined as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage" (IASP 1979). It is unfortunate that the word pain is used for acute...

...process of pain transmission; usually relating to a receptive neuron for painful sensations. Pain: An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage. Pain threshold level: The level of intensity at which pain becomes...

...process. WHAT IS PAIN? Pain has been defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as 'an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage'. Most pain originates when specific nerve endings (nociceptors)...

...,developed knowledge of assessment. The International Association for the Study of Pain defined pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage" (Foley, 1985). Pain is always subjective; there is no way to distinguish pain occurring in the absence...

...tissue damage threat, an integrated defence reaction and a private experience of hurt. (Sternbach, 1968) Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience...associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage. (International Association for the Study of Pain Subcommittee on...

...proper assessment and treatment. According to the International Association for the Study of Pain, pain is ". . .an unpleasant sensory and emotional...associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage."13* 260 In addition, the American Pain Society notes that pain is...

...it loosens up the biomedical model without entirely renouncing it. "Pain," the IASP authors write, "is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience...associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage." x Cartesian mind-body dualism comes under implicit rebuke in the...

...The International Association for the Study of Pain has established a standard definition of pain as: 'An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage' (Merskey & Bogduk, 1994, p.210). Cognitive-behaviour therapy has...

...pinning down just what pain is. According to the International Association for the Study of Pain, it is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. There are no blood tests, scans, or other laboratory measures which can diagnose pain. Where pain is...

...certain refractory pain patients. The International Association for the Study of Pain has defined pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage." This definition clearly emphasizes the fact that pain is an experience...