Pain Management: Classifying, Understanding, and …

Ccording to the International Association forthe Study of pain , pain is an unpleasant sen-sory and emotional experience associatedwith actual and potential tissue damage, ordescribed in terms of such damage, or both. 1 Thisdefinition emphasizes the subjective and psychologicalnature of pain and appropriately avoids making theauthenticity of pain contingent on an externally verifi-able stimulus. Price2 similarly proposes that painshould be understood as a somatic perception involv-ing a bodily sensation with qualities similar to thosereported during tissue - damaging stimulation, anexperienced threat associated with this sensation, anda feeling of unpleasantness or other negative emo-tions based on the experienced its 2001 implementation of pain - related standardsof care, the Joint Commission on Accreditation ofHealthcare Organizatio

pain is further divided by its underlying etiology into non–cancer-related pain (often called benign or non- malignant pain) and cancer-related pain (often called malignant pain).6–8 The primary distinction between acute and chronic

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